Book Quote by Milan Kundera

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane…

— Milan Kundera

“They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as…

— Milan Kundera

“When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs. She always knew the way.…

— Roman Payne

“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

“Meg was a great reader and was never without a book; while walking to school she often had one open in her hands, so…

— Alice Hoffman

“When she was a child, my love carried a road-map in her hand the way other girls carried handkerchiefs.”

— Roman Payne

“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 knew where she stood, when she stood among books.”

— M.R. Graham

“The books are hard. But the more she asked, the more the children gave. And, though they never saw her, there were thousands who…

— Parents' National Education Union

“She found it an interesting exercise to explore a place with a person she did not know well, following not only her own impulses…

— Lydia Davis

“used to write her books.”

— Peter Robinson

“Today she felt especially comforted by the books that climbed the walls. They were a reminder that any knowledge she desired was hers for…

— Liv Constantine