People Quote by Joe Hill

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage…

— Alan Bennett

“She had an English boyfriend who called her more often than she needed to hear from him, a savings account, a mobile phone, an…

— Rosie Thomas

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

— Markus Zusak

“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 associated English accents with singing teapots, schools for witchcraft, and the science of deduction. This wasn’t, she knew, terribly sophisticated of her, but…

— Joe Hill

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

— Agatha Christie

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 lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all! His looks…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“For all the things that had happened to her, all the people she had met, the miles of ocean she had covered, she could…

— Peter Carey

She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“She was a great and insatiable reader, surprisingly well acquainted with the classics of literature, and unexpectedly lavish in the purchase of books. Her…

— Edith OE. Somerville Martin Ross