Mary Ann Shaffer
Born: 12-13-1934
Mary Ann Shaffer was an American author and editor, born in West Virginia in 1934. Best known for her posthumously published novel "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society," she worked in various roles within the literary world, including as a librarian and bookshop worker. Her passion for storytelling and history is evident in her writing. Mary Ann's legacy continues to touch readers with her charming and heartfelt prose.
Book summaries for books written by Mary Ann Shaffer
Quotes
Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.
That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.
I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers.
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
I don't want to be considered a criminal. I am not a criminal! I can't believe this is happening to me.
I want to say to the world: I am not a criminal. How can I make the world listen to me?
I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.
I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.
You see, bookshops are dreams built of wood and paper. They are time travel and escape and knowledge and power. They are, simply put, the best of places.
I will never understand why people organize things they know they will never finish.
That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you onto another book.