Books Quote by Madeline Sheehan

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

— Wendy Wax

“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

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

— Jane Hamilton

“Publishing a book is like being pregnant. By the end, you're just ready to get that baby out!”

— Carmen DeSousa

“That’s the only problem with novels,’ Mia said. ‘They give readers such high hopes that the real world can often be a bit of…

— Victoria Connelly

“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and…

— Virginia Woolf

“Waiting for a book to be published is like having a baby. It would be nine months before we heard the patter of tiny…

— Anonymous

“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

She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

— John Green

“Without any reading time in class, too much homework, and little choice provided in reading material or writing topics, Sarah keeps her reading life…

— Donalyn Miller

“All books matter,” she assures and redirects her attention. “All books. Fiction. Non-fiction. How Tos and Self Help manuals. All books serve a purpose.…

— Xavier Neal