Life Quote by Roald Dahl

“The pleasure of this sort of life-bookish, she supposed it might be called, a reading life- had made her isolation into a rich and…

— Louise Erdrich

“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the…

— Michel Houellebecq

“They saw the world in different ways. For him, life was like a story that had answers, or a conclusion that made sense. For…

— David Bergen

“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

“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in…

— Jane Austen

“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read,…

— Albert Camus

“So much of one's life was spent reading; it made sense not to do it alone.”

— Chad Harbach

“Her life was more like a series of tattered Post-it notes with hastily scribbled goals written in dull pencil. Some of them stuck. Lots…

— Tracy Brogan

“-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading…

— James Hilton

“...being daunted by her father in every intellectual attempt, she read every book that came in her way, almost with as much delight as…

— Elizabeth Gaskell Wives and Daughters

“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