Art Quote by Catherynne M. Valente

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

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

To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had…

— Henry James

“Isabel is looking at several collections of research journals. 'She would understand the issues if she chose to open one of the volumes, but…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing…

— Virginia Woolf

“She was a passionate reader, and she thought that reading was one of the noblest efforts of all; in contrast, she found writing to…

— John Irving

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

“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people.”

— Alan Bennett

“She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people’s lives. That was release.”

— Peter Straub

“After finishing a good book, it was sometimes days before she could shake off that other reality; the one she'd dipped into, leaving the…

— Ann Sutherland