Austen Quote by Ian Mcewan

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

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an…

— Robert Goolrick

“She’d never spent entire days lying on her bed reading, entire nights making up complicated stories in her head. She’d not dreamed of willing…

— Joanna Rakoff

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 had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

— Barbara Pym

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

— Paulo Coelho

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 liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

— Stella Gibbons

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

“-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

“Austen's works have endured because she had a superb narrative technique and a gift for creating characters who feel as real as life itself.…

— Syrie James

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading…

— Nicholas Sparks