Books Quote by Jane Austen

He didn't know what books meant to her, that books were symbols of truth and meaning ...

— Cassandra Clare

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

— Jean Rhys

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

— Cherie Priest

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

— Roald Dahl

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

— Charles Frazier

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 could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.

— Diane Setterfield

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her…

— Ian Mcewan

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

She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead…

— Catherynne M. Valente

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

— Barbara Pym

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith