Apples Quote by Stella Gibbons

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

— Barbara Pym

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You might read…

— Joan Didion

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad,…

— Ian Mcewan

“Sara, who snatched her lessons at all sorts of untimely hours from tattered and discarded books, and who had a hungry craving for everything…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

— Terry Pratchett

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading…

— Nicholas Sparks

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 liked things that had been written by people who had lived short, ugly, and tragic lives. Or, who at least, were English.

— Joe Hill

I love Victorian novels, the way they capture the nuances of the human condition.

— Sal Khan

“-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

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

— Markus Zusak