Books Quote by Alice Munro

From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

— Betty Smith

She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.

— Diane Setterfield

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

— Roald Dahl

She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.

— Gustave Flaubert

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

— Alan Bennett

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

— Oscar Wilde

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

— Annie Dillard

She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set…

— Charles Frazier

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

— Jodi Picoult

Poor woman, strangled in her bed as she read. But that's okay because she was old and she would have died anyways.

— The Smiths

There would be no one there to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful…

— Kate Chopin

Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.

— Miranda July