Knack Quote by Agatha Christie

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage…

— Alan Bennett

She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what…

— Colleen McCullough

“She was a passionate reader, and she thought that reading was one of the noblest efforts of all; in contrast, she found writing to…

— John Irving

The world was hers for the reading.

— Betty Smith

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

— Markus Zusak

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith

She liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

— Joe Hill

Her secret to happiness was simple and unpretentious. She had a beautiful house, would pick fruit and make jams, run the dogs in the…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and…

— Miranda July

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

— Barbara Pym