Isabel

“Why be so bloody miserable when you can pick up a good book or watch a great television drama?”
― Michael Dobbs

“The idea came to me complete from start to finish – a most unusual occurrence, as any writer will tell you, for ordinarily a story has to be struggled with, changed around and mixed up.”
― Philip Van Doren Stern

“Books change us. Books save us. I know this because it happened to me.”
― Elif Shafak

“There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river.”
― Marina Tsvetaeva