Books Quote by Julian Barnes

“Books, she thought, grew of themselves.”

— Virginia Woolf

“She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.”

— Rachel Cusk

“All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did…

— Tim Lebbon

“There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“ 'Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet if the…

— Fae Sutherland

“They were oddities, marginal and not exactly respectable. For her part, Chaps was too well read to be considered entirely proper. Books had made…

— Sheridan Hay

“She didn't really enjoy reading but she liked how the books were clues. Each one a piece in a puzzle. Even when they didn't…

— Max Barry

“In every book she’d ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“I've always loved books. I was an avid reader, with any number of my own stories rolling around in my head. Writing them down…

— Kat Martin

“She‘d never taken much interest in reading. She read, of course, as one did, but liking books was something she left to other people.”

— Alan Bennett

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

“She believed that books served as a mirror of the person who accumulated them.”

— Donna Leon