Books Quote by James Hilton

“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

“She hadn't written so much as a word of a story, but for the first time in a long time she felt she was…

— Paul Murray

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

“She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and…

— Terry Pratchett

“She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and…

— Lisa Genova

“He searched her face for the hint of compassion. It wasn’t there. She had never written a word of fiction in her life. Why…

— James A. Newman

“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 had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many…

— Robin McKinley

“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“And when she was home, she spent her days lolling about the house reading mystery novels, watching television, and drinking wine. She watered and…

— Kathy Cooperman

“She hasn't had a book to read lately and that feeling of story rushes through her like a swoon.”

— Helen Humphreys

“Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most…

— John Fowles