Quotes by Jane Hamilton

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Reading someone else's e-mail is a quiet, clean enterprise. There is no pitter-pattering around the room, no opening and closing the desk drawers, no percussive creasing as you draw the paper from the envelope and unfold it. There is no sound but the melody of the dial-up, the purity of the following Gregorian tones, and the sweet nilhilistic measure of static.