Quotes by Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

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Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal. — Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
If you've ever read one of those articles that asks notable people to list their favorite books, you may have been impre — Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
A long time ago, I opened a book, and this is what I found inside: a whole new world. It isn't the world I live in, alth — Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would m — Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a diffi — Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly tur — Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
Desire acts as a honey trap to the unwary male, luring him into unworthy and catastrophic enterprises. The beauty of the — Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems. — Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effe — Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly — Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
There is an uncharacteristic radicalism to Lewis’s further suggestion that if we can find “even one reader to whom the c — Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
I can see how James or Greene might agree with this point of view: the former finds that the ugly old lamp no longer pro — Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia
I can hazily remember, long ago, having adults — librarians, friends’ parents — suggest to me that I liked books “with m — Laura Miller, The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia