Book Quote by John Irving

“She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning without sharing…

— Virginia Woolf

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths…

— Roberto Bolano

She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling.…

— Kate Morton

A book consists of two layers: on top, the readable layer ... and underneath, a layer that was inaccessible. You only sense its existence…

— Marguerite Duras

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

— Charles Frazier

To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea…

— Alan Bennett

“A woman at one of mother's parties once said to me, "Do you like reading?" which smote us all to silence, for how could…

— Rachel Ferguson

“She went on to say that these books were dangerous, and should be banned or at least restricted, but what is a kid going…

— Ivan D'Amico

She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been…

— Louise Erdrich

She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set…

— Charles Frazier

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the…

— Helen Humphreys

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

— Jane Hamilton