Book Quote by Alphonse Karr

A woman who writes feels too much.

— Anne Sexton

A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women

— Gustave Flaubert

Woman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which cannot be stilled save…

— Robertson Davies

She writhes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.

— Charles Dickens

A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman…

— Ernest Hemingway

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both.

— Susan Sontag

A cunning woman is her own mistress because she confides in no one. She who deceives others anticipates deceit, and guards herself.

— Ninon de L'Enclos