I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good. — Cathy Marie Buchanan Contrived Copy Share Image
“No social being is less protected than the young Parisian girl—by laws, regulations, and social customs.” — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world. — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
“Willfulness, such as yours, is exactly what a girl needs to raise herself up to do something useful with her life.” — Cathy Marie Buchanan Life Copy Share Image
A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. And I certainly… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
“She was lost to me, a sister who did not love her sister anymore. Such a stupid thing, striking that match.” — Cathy Marie Buchanan Sister Copy Share Image
“We all matter so very little, not at all after a generation or two. And it is the same for all mankind;… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Mankind Copy Share Image
I really became convinced I wanted to tell the story of the real-life model for the Degas sculpture 'Little Dancer Aged 14,'… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
“It is about being born downtrodden and staying that way. Hard work makes no difference, he is saying. My lot, the lots… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Downtrodden Copy Share Image
“Tom said, "You should go. You could use a friend." It was not anything I had not thought myself. Still, hearing it… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Friend Copy Share Image
Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
“In those clouds I have seen aberrations-flecks of shimmering silver, orbs of color a shade more intense than their surroundings. I have… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Prayer Copy Share Image
Just when you think you’ve got Arranged figured out, time and again Catherine McKenzie delivers the flawless, unexpected twist that keeps you… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Book Copy Share Image
“Maman drops to her knees, grasps the hem of Monsieur LeBlanc’s greatcoat. “You cannot turn us out. My daughters, all three good… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
