Book Quote by Diane Setterfield

Of course I loved books more than people.

— Diane Setterfield

“And my own feelings? Shame. For I had lied. Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued Jane Eyre over…

— Diane Setterfield

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

— Brent Weeks

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.

— Helen Keller

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

— Rita Dove

I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than…

— Julia Stiles

As a reader, I try to love all the literary forms equally, but I probably read novels most often.

— Sally Rooney

I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and…

— David Nicholls

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about…

— Adam Braver

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily…

— Lynn Coady

“When I was a kid, I just read and read. We were lucky enough to have gone to England and had a whole bunch…

— Franny Billingsley

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could…

— Georgia King