Books Quote by L.L. Barkat

“After finishing a good book, it was sometimes days before she could shake off that other reality; the one she'd dipped into, leaving the…

— Ann Sutherland

“... the great novels of the world were about three things - death, money and sex. Occasionally a whale.”

— Kate Atkinson

“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.”

— Wendy Wax

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

“-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading…

— James Hilton

“She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting down, and…

— Terry Pratchett

“People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of…

— Louise Penny

“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

As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she…

— Salman Rushdie

“Her instinct was to defend, to hoard the treasures of her life, to build about herself the symbols of normal existence.”

— John le Carré

“She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, with a slight jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments.…

— Joseph Conrad

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