Book Quote by Charles Frazier

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

— Jane Hamilton

“Out of habit, she stopped by the bookshelf in the living room to see if there was a paperback that she could stuff into…

— Emily Croy Barker

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

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

“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 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

. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had…

— Jane Austen

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

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

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or…

— Alice Munro

“A woman at one of mother's parties once said to me, "Do you like reading?" which smote us all to silence, for how could…

— Rachel Ferguson

Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had…

— Pat Conroy