51 Quotes by Maureen Corrigan

It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book.

Gatsby's fall from grace may be grim, but the language of the novel is buoyant; Fitzgerald's plot may suggest that the American Dream is a mirage, but his words make that dream irresistible.

Terry Eagleson says his family's aim was to have the words "We Were No Trouble" engraved on their gravestones.

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be.

During the Great Depression, the philosophy of grin-and-bear-it became a national coping mechanism.

The danger in reviewing and teaching literature for a living (is) you can develop a kind of knee-jerk superiority to the material you're "decoding

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.

Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in.