There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back. – Jim Fiebig
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. – Jim Fiebig
No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it. – Jim Fiebig
Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)