Diane Setterfield

“I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my a… →

Eve Garnett

“I’m fed up,’ said Jim… ‘Nuffing ever happens like in books.” →

Graham Greene

“I remember distinctly the suddenness with which a key turned in the lock and I found I could read -not just the sentences in a reading book with the syllables coupled like railway carriages, but a re… →

Groucho Marx

“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” →

Italo Calvino

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” →

Julian Barnes

“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books.” →

Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

“That’s what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It’s geometrica… →

Miguel de Cervantes

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.” →

Roald Dahl

“So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and… →