Book Quote by Jean Rhys

To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had…

— Henry James

. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had…

— Jane Austen

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

— Paulo Coelho

“To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had…

— Henry James

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

Books are solitudes in which we meet.

— Rebecca Solnit

“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

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to…

— Louisa May Alcott

Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

— Philip James Bailey

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

“...books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.”

— Lawrence Durrell

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

— Charles Frazier