Book Quote by Cornelia Funke

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough…

— Alan Bennett

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her…

— Michael Ondaatje

“She opened the book to a spot about halfway in. She had learned that it didn’t really matter where she opened the thing—it always…

— Scott Prussing

“-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

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

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 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

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

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark…

— Gloria Steinem

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything…

— Susan Coolidge

The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“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