Books Quote by Barbara Pym Download Open image “She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...” — Barbara Pym ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Novel Reader
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 Copy Share Image
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple. — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“-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 Copy Share Image
“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“She had been feeling that things were pretty desperate if one found oneself talking about and almost quoting Matthew Arnold to comparative strangers, though… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“He is a brilliant man, said Miss Doggett. She helped him a good deal in his work, I think. Mrs. Bonner says that she… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“One wouldn't believe there could be so many people, and one must love them all.” — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“-Hoy no pareces tú misma- dijo él en tono censurador-. Espero que no haya sido el Nuits Saint Georges. -Ya sabes que no estoy… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“Jane felt that he would write from the depths of a wretchedness that would not necessarily be insincere because its outward signs were so… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“You lose your sense of perspective when you get too close, and the charm goes.” — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“I hope you don’t mind tea in mugs,’ she said, coming in with a tray. ‘I told you I was a slut.” — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many plain women… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“However romantically ill John might look, it seemed that he had nothing worse than an unromantic cold.” — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
The burden of keeping three people in toilet paper seemed to me rather a heavy one. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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