Book Quote by Julia Quinn

Back in middle school, Catherine and I had gone through this stage where all we would read were fantasy books. We'd consume them like…

— Meg Cabot

[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years, before I…

— Whit Stillman

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

— Terry Pratchett

In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity that reading…

— Margot Livesey

I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted…

— Lisa Unger

I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.

— Alison Weir

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

— Barbara Pym

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

We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we're still…

— Ronald Frame

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

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad,…

— Ian Mcewan

She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror stories, and…

— Karen Marie Moning