Book Quote by Lisa Genova

“She couldn’t imagine how anyone would want to forego the intimate experience of a book—pages whispering between the fingers, hurried glances at the colorful…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”

— Barbara Michaels

“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. Even as a kid, my…

— Maurice Sendak

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

— Louisa May Alcott

“Reading, she tells me, is what she does best. She loves it because it uses the whole of her, the right and the left,…

— Jenny Hubbard

“She hasn't had a book to read lately and that feeling of story rushes through her like a swoon.”

— Helen Humphreys

“She thought, instead, with longing of more books—of buying books—of slipping into a narrative of other people’s lives. That was release.”

— Peter Straub

“She can't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture-that we keep them because…

— Paula Marantz Cohen

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

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

— Jane Hamilton

“This book is a treasure; I did not suspect it would be so good when I picked it up, but now I can feel…

— Laura Nowlin

“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