Australian-literature Quote by Steph Bowe

She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.

— Louisa May Alcott

“There are so many things to know and learn. She reads...and finds comfort in the fact that she will never run out of books.”

— Janice Y.K. Lee

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar…

— Cornelia Funke

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

— Jane Hamilton

“She can't understand that books don't get used up. I've tried to explain that they aren't like clothes or furniture-that we keep them because…

— Paula Marantz Cohen

“She is too fond of books and it has addled her mind.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Her journal, the only thing in the world that she owned, held the events of her life. Things she wanted to forget and things…

— Luke Alistar

“She imagined the reading she did now as like climbing inside one of those deep old beds she'd seen in a museum, with a…

— Tessa Hadley

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an…

— Robert Goolrick

“Out of habit, she stopped by the bookshelf in the living room to see if there was a paperback that she could stuff into…

— Emily Croy Barker

“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

To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea…

— Alan Bennett