3 Quotes & Sayings By Mary Virginia Provines

Mary Virginia Provines is a professor of English at the University of Georgia, where she teaches creative writing and serves as editor of the literary magazine The Georgia Review. She has received the Georgia Author's Award for her first novel, The Last Flower, and has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. Her other published novels include The Scent of Josephine, The Dead Wife, and Among the Pines. Mary Virginia is a frequent contributor to Georgia Review Read more

She has also been a recipient of a Georgia Humanities Council Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Grant.

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There is a somewhat time-worn joke about people taking up library work because they like to read : the joke consisting of the fact that librarians have so little time to read. But, I tell you, those who do not, and there are some, are in the wrong profession. Mary Virginia Provines
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Someone has said of books that they are our 'amplest heritages' of thought, and so they are. That doesn't necessarily mean that they must be learned or profound. They are food for the mind and different minds require different foods ; everyone is better for variety. Whatever stimulates the mind feeds it, be it fact, fiction or fable. That is where our responsibility lies ; in knowing what builds good mental blood and brawn, and in dispensing that only. Don't ever let yourself think you haven't time to read. Mary Virginia Provines