I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet. Michael Dirda Read Quote
Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the various places I visit. Michael Dirda Read Quote
Carl Barks was born in Merrill, Oregon, in 1901, grew up in a farming family, and eventually held a number of blue-collar jobs. He knew what it was to be poor and to work hard for a living. Michael Dirda Read Quote
A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you’d like to know. Michael Dirda Read Quote
I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history. Michael Dirda Read Quote
Any man’s death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago. Michael Dirda Read Quote
I’m an appreciator. I love all kinds of books, and I want others to love them, too. Michael Dirda Read Quote
None of us, of course, will ever read all the books we’d like, but we can still make a stab at it. Michael Dirda Read Quote
When I was a boy in the late 1950s, the public library refused to stock books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. They were regarded as vulgar, ill-written potboilers. Michael Dirda Read Quote
A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one’s gifts and talents, is what truly matters. Michael Dirda Read Quote