Michael Sims Quotes

#1. Anthologizing is a dusty sport, half antique hunting and half literary gossip fest, and I love it.

Michael Sims

#2. E. B. White had a romantic tenderness toward nature in a capital R, 19th-century way. He was knowledgeable, a part-time farmer, and a hardheaded realistic person.

Michael Sims

#3. If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.

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#4. I was told as a teenager that I would never walk again.

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#5. I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library, and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

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#6. Henry David Thoreau was an oddball job quitter and ne'er-do-well who evolved into the bearded sage of literature, natural history, and civil liberties.

Michael Sims