Bones Quote by Alissa Nutting

“The choice of the point(s) of view from which the story is told is arguably the most important single decision that the novelist has…

— David Lodge

“The novice screenwriter didn't see that final flourish as the characters killing themselves. She thought it carried to the extreme an irrepressible impetus to…

— Becky Aikman

“Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality denies. In…

— Azar Nafisi

“She buried herself in books because it was easier to fall in love with a fictional character than it is to deal with the…

— Vanessa Trinita

“Marie's eyes slammed the furthest wall after a back-forth, back-forth swinging from horror to horror, from skull to skull, beating from rib to rib,…

— Ray Bradbury

Really complicated, interesting women at the centre of very, very well written dramas - and that's what floats my boat.

— Lesley Sharp

I also really pay attention to whether the script embodies a full female character or if they're just wanting a two-dimensional objectified woman. So…

— Karla Souza

I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].

— Megan Chance

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of…

— Kate Morton

I am one of those authors who believes (perhaps foolishly) that she is in complete control of the story.

— Megan Chance

“The rise of the beauty myth was just one of several emerging social fictions that masqueraded as natural components of the feminine sphere, the…

— Naomi Wolf

“Miss Lasqueti consumed mostly crime thrillers, which constantly seemed to disappoint her. I suspect that for her the world was more accidental than any…

— Michael Ondaatje