Books Quote by Mary Wortley Montagu

She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been…

— Louise Erdrich

“Finally, bookshelves can be a terrifying place for debut writers, especially those who are marginalized. Writers who are queer, trans, BIPOC, disabled, working class…

— Frances White

“She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which cannot be stilled save…

— Robertson Davies

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

— Jane Hamilton

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

— Louisa May Alcott

Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had…

— Pat Conroy

Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material…

— Allegra Goodman

She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set…

— Charles Frazier

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

— Michael Cunningham

“Without rich people who want it done now, who would animate the free world? In theory, you want everyone to live peacefully according to…

— Michael Cunningham

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar…

— Cornelia Funke

I am not a total, complete nitwit when it comes to selling books. I promise you there will be unexpected things. Some of them…

— Mary Matalin