J. R. Moehringer Book Quotations

Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all my time and money - Tattered Cover, Elliot Bay, Harvard Bookstore.

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

Baseball, boxing, handball - sooner or later every game gets compared to narrative, but only in football are the plays perfectly linear, drawn up with letters, and only in football is the field itself lined like a sheet of notebook paper.

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.