Book Quote by William Gaddis

“daughter of the past who walked in all wide-eyed and exhaling like she’d finally found what she was looking for. It was a look…

— Patti Callahan Henry

Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to…

— Paulo Coelho

“People in books were always so charming, and all their thoughts and actions so comprehensible. They all invariably had a clear, well-defined object in…

— Lyubov Dostoyevskaya

“This allowed her two glorious hours sitting quietly by herself in a cozy corner, devouring one book after another. When she had read every…

— Roald Dahl

She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and…

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“I walked to the bookcase and examined the storybooks inside. As a girl, I had dreamed of having stacks of books at my disposal--stories…

— Sarah Jio

“I learned from the age of two or three, that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read…

— Eudora Welty

“Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“Meg was a great reader and was never without a book; while walking to school she often had one open in her hands, so…

— Alice Hoffman

“You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration and what…

— Charles Dickens

“The only thing I know about books, is that they should be like a woman's dress: long enough to cover the subject and short…

— James A. Newman

She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves…

— Nora Roberts