“It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.” –Eudora Welty
I love this quote by writer Eudora Welty. As a child, I, too, thought that books couldn’t be ordinary works of effort, written by ordinary people. All of those books on the library shelves did seem to me to be wonders of the world.