Books Quote by Ann Radcliffe

“She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her…

— Dean Koontz

“Books had been her solace when she was sad, her friends when she was lonely. They had mended her heart when it was broken,…

— Jenny Colgan

“Something in her was changing as she read the books. Life after life flashed before her eyes, yet she stayed safe from misery. And…

— Louise Erdrich

“She remembered her books in the moments of worst sorrow, especially the ones that were made for her and the one that saved her…

— Markus Zusak

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

“they filled her with the most astonishing sensation of synthesis-as though all the most disparate elements of her biography were at last knitting together.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“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

“Sitting down in the evenings became a kind of torture, a bleak realization of her talents laid out against the bright shimmering fabric of…

— Cathy Holton

“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the material things…

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

“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

“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista