Book Quote by V.E. Schwab

“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 knew that in all stories she must be left out-the life she had made for herself was a life of flight, of discarding…

— Yiyun Li

“Stories help you understand your life, she’d say. Stories can heal. And I think she’s right, because why do old guys back from the…

— Deb Caletti

“Her ambition to write stories was the most visible burden of her life.”

— Sylvia Plath

“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

“People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of…

— Louise Penny

“But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their…

— Jane Austen

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith

“Lists, she thought, are the stories of our lives; they give a picture of who we are and what we do every day.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“she sees her life pass before her in rapid succession, like clouds, different shapes and different colors, merging, passing into one another, the story…

— Edna O'Brien

“All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did…

— Tim Lebbon

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