Books Quote by Sheridan Hay

“I didn't doubt for a moment that she had read them all, or that they were the right books to own. Further, they seemed…

— Julian Barnes

“There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“...too much time spent with books had not fitted her to be easy with herself, and other people.”

— Jo Baker

“The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.”

— Inglath Cooper

“presumed that the reader was as fascinated by her life as she was - which was a deadly mistake. The other deadly mistakes she…

— Charles Bukowski

“She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.”

— Rachel Cusk

“And yet, in books were comfort and diversion; and they were wanted!”

— John Galsworthy

“It was a tricky quality that suggested, well, magic and things read in books,”

— Truman Capote

“Books were her easiest friends. They demanded nothing from her but her attention.”

— Lorna Landvik

“In every book she’d ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“Kay came to realize that she preferred her books to other people’s company. Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal…

— Laura Lippman

“Susan hated Literature. She’d much prefer to read a good book.”

— Terry Pratchett