Books Quote by Annie Dillard

“He searched her face for the hint of compassion. It wasn’t there. She had never written a word of fiction in her life. Why…

— James A. Newman

“-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading…

— James Hilton

“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

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 knew it the way people say they know they are about to be hit by lightning, yet remain powerless to run, unable to…

— Alice Hoffman

“Her journal, the only thing in the world that she owned, held the events of her life. Things she wanted to forget and things…

— Luke Alistar

“She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and…

— Terry Pratchett

“She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and…

— Lisa Genova

“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

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

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

She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story,…

— Patrick White