Laura Miller
Laura Miller
Laura Millerserved as mayor of Dallas, Texasfrom 2002 through 2007. She did not run for re-election in the 2007 mayoral race. She was the third woman to serve as mayor of Dallas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 November 1958
CountryUnited States of America
gold digging easier
Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!
book first-love love-is
The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.
real convince-us roots
A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly.
writing editors agents
For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.
adventure hardship might
Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.
cities done dallas
Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.
fighting cities dallas
Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
art mean explaining
The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.
perfect ifs
There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect.
children book lists
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
butterfly
Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away.
dream morning stealing
Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.
children book reading
Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.
fire stories body
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.