Book Quote by Ruth Ozeki

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed…

— Louisa May Alcott

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

“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 lay on the bed to read a novel; she wanted to forget that bitter conversation and be carried along by the plot, but…

— Alejandro Zambra

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her…

— Ian Mcewan

“It gave her a creeping sense of impending aloneness, like she was some orphaned animal raised by do-gooders, soon to be released into the…

— Laini Taylor

“If you added it up, without her there was nothing--but with her even the simplest of gestures of walking a bird dog in the…

— Jim Harrison

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

— Charles Lamb

To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of knowledge had…

— Henry James

“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many…

— Robin McKinley

So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris

— Ann Brashares

“She was never going to seek gainful employment again, that was for certain. She'd remain outside the public sector. She'd be an anarchist, she'd…

— Joy Williams