Books Quote by Virginia Woolf

“She wrote his name on a piece of paper and lit it with a match. The letters curled as they turned dark and misshapen…

— Eric Overby

“Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most…

— John Fowles

“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

“-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

“The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.”

— Mary Papas

“Little did she know that this was going to be not just any book, but the book that changed her life. In the time…

— Elif Shafak

“His words put an ache in her heart. She wanted happily ever after more than he could possibly know. She wanted forever. Problem was,…

— Maya Banks

“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything…

— Susan Coolidge

“Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“used to write her books.”

— Peter Robinson

“She believed that books served as a mirror of the person who accumulated them.”

— Donna Leon

“Her self, then, was represented in her books.”

— Claire Messud