“Words, stories, books allowed me to have not so much a quiet eye -- never, perhaps, my forte when I was young -- but a widened gaze at worlds I could never have imagined from my very small vantage point over Walnut Street, where I met Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte and Margaret Mitchell for the first time.”
-- from Reader, Come Home (The Reading Brain in a Digital World) by Maryanne Wolf, page 88