Biographies Quote by Alan Bennett

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an…

— Robert Goolrick

“Sometimes Matilda longed for a friend, someone like the kind, courageous people in her books.”

— Roald Dahl

“I have never read Sylvia Plath. My mother has never read Virginia Woolf. In general, we have stayed out of one another's way like…

— Alison Bechdel

“I began to realize, with some little horror, that she was nothing more than a lowbrow, pop-psychology version of Sylvia Plath. It lasted forever,…

— Donna Tartt

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Maryanne Burkhard and I have set up a B W Wrighthard profile on Goodreads. If any of you would like to friend us there,…

— B W Wrighthard

She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been…

— Louise Erdrich

“I didn't doubt for a moment that she had read them all, or that they were the right books to own. Further, they seemed…

— Julian Barnes

“Keep that red-haired girl of yours in the open air all summer and don't let her read books until she gets more spring into…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as…

— Alan Bennett

“Like so many of the other books I read, it never seemed to me like a book, but like a place I had lived…

— Anna Quindlen

“She’d never spent entire days lying on her bed reading, entire nights making up complicated stories in her head. She’d not dreamed of willing…

— Joanna Rakoff