Bell jar Quote by Paul Westerberg

I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going…

— Lionel Shriver

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

I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you…

— Michael Palin

I loved Katy Wix's book 'Delicacy.' It's a poignant and beautifully penned book about grief and cake. Together at last.

— Tim Key

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

— Cornelia Funke

Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I…

— Alexandra Fuller

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

— Sarah Dessen

“She imagined the reading she did now as like climbing inside one of those deep old beds she'd seen in a museum, with a…

— Tessa Hadley

“Sometimes books feel like the only thing that keep her sane. Actually, she knows that they're the only reason she's still even vaguely okay…

— Steph Bowe

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

— Jane Hamilton

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or…

— Alice Munro