Quotes About Orlean

Why, I wonder, should the popularity of a news story matter to me? Does it mean it's a good story or just a seductive one?

Apparently, everyone in Los Angeles gets on the computer right after Thanksgiving dinner and makes requests for diet books.

He also began writing his own column. He called it "In the Lion's Den" and wrote it in the voice of an opinionated English-speaking mountain lion.

Compared to the mute towers around it, the library seemed more a proclamation than a building.

One of the guards told me that his position at the library feels more like that of a psychologist or a priest than a security guard.

a novel that was romantic but not corny;