Book Quote by Markus Zusak

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“-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

“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

“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

“She hadn't written so much as a word of a story, but for the first time in a long time she felt she was…

— Paul Murray

“She quickly realized she had an affinity for the older books and their muted scents of past dinners and foreign countries, the tea and…

— Erica Bauermeister

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 begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story,…

— Patrick White

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything…

— Susan Coolidge

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage…

— Alan Bennett

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough…

— Alan Bennett

“To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had…

— Henry James