Book Quote by Alice Munro

She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

— Sherman Alexie

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

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar…

— Cornelia Funke

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough…

— Alan Bennett

“She imagined the reading she did now as like climbing inside one of those deep old beds she'd seen in a museum, with a…

— Tessa Hadley

To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea…

— Alan Bennett

The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its…

— Cornelia Funke

But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the…

— Betty Smith

“She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which cannot be stilled save…

— Robertson Davies

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding…

— Shannon Hale

“She did find that the books displayed prominently in every chamber had been dusted, but the spines were pristine and uncreased. They had the…

— Genevieve Cogman

“All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did…

— Tim Lebbon