Reading Quote by Penelope Lively

“Forever, reading has been central, the necessary fix, the support sustem.”

— Penelope Lively

“Reading helps her escape. It lets her escape to an imaginary world where she can live another life. Where she can forget about her…

— Madeleine Beckett

“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.”

— Wendy Wax

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

“She read to find out what it was like to be French or Russian in the nineteenth century, to be a rich New Yorker…

— Penelope Lively

“Charlotte views her younger selves with a certain detachment. They are herself, but other incarnations, innocents going about half-forgotten business.”

— Penelope Lively

“Charlotte is a prism for my life. Without her, my existence looks pale and bleak and somewhere near the middle of the suck-meter. But…

— Hannah Moskowitz

“Reading is the spark to imagination. Ignite yours and live forever free.”

— Dan Sanders

“This was the part where Charlotte, heroine, remembered she was a twenty-first-century woman and a mother. This was Charlotte saying, Hell no!”

— Shannon Hale

“Her salvation was the novels she read. On nights she thought it might br better not to be alive w/o Levi in the world,…

— Alice Hoffman

“The thirst we shared for one another made it clear that the distraction would only come from deprivation. Charlotte was always on my mind.…

— Shawn Kirsten Maravel

“Views on life, love universe: TBA. --Charlotte T.”

— SMITH Magazine