“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind” (Cervantes, Don Quixote)
Category: Literature
Literary Quotation of the Week – #2
“The idea that winter could actually be enjoyable would never have occurred to the Ramtop people, who had 18 different words for snow. (All of them, unfortunately, unprintable)”. (Terry Pratchett Wyrd Sisters)
Literary Quotation of the Week – #1
‘”One hears such stories about onesself”, said Creosote, affecting not to have heard. “So tiresome. As if wealth mattered. True riches lie in the treasure houses of literature”‘ (Terry Pratchett: Sourcery)
June's Jottings 