Book Quote by Paulo Coelho

She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

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

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

— Jean Rhys

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books…

— Sebastian Faulks

She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.

— Diane Setterfield

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

— Michael Cunningham

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

— Jodi Picoult

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

“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

“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

To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea…

— Alan Bennett