Quote of the Day (Claire Tomalin, on Her Mother’s Good Advice About Books)

“My mother told me early that whatever happens to you, however unhappy you may be, you can escape into a book.”— English editor and biographer Claire Tomalin, A Life of My Own: A Memoir (2018)

The image accompanying this post, of Claire Tomalin signing a copy of her Charles Dickens biography at the Hexham Book Festival, was taken Apr. 27, 2013, by summonedbyfells.