Character Quote by Jane Austen

“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in…

— Jane Austen

“People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of…

— Louise Penny

“In books too, as well as in music, she courted the misery which a contrast between the past and present was certain of giving.”

— Jane Austen

“She remembered her books in the moments of worst sorrow, especially the ones that were made for her and the one that saved her…

— Markus Zusak

“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

“It is my considered opinion that the sweetest relief from suffering and the best comfort in affliction that this world affords are to be…

— Henry of Huntingdon

“But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their…

— Jane Austen

“The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and…

— Louise Erdrich

“If I can make a difference to some readers and help them to escape from some pains of unforgiveness and emotional misery by thumbing…

— Roger Macdonald Andrew

“...Novels--which, after all, are training grounds for responding to the world, imaginative sanctuaries in which to hone and test our ethical judgments and choices.”

— William Deresiewicz

Nothing detains the reader's attention more powerfully than deep involutions of distress, or sudden vicissitudes of fortune; and these might be abundantly afforded by…

— Samuel Johnson

“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one nature wrote…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson