Family Quote by Arundhati Roy

“They surrounded him day and night, eliminating every person likely to interfer; slandering, ridiculing and calumniating them in turns, they at last left him…

— Catherine Radziwill

“Biographer diagnoses reaction to restriction as a tell of true character. Some use even prison as a time of reflection and planning. Others, like…

— William Raymond Manchester

He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

— Stanley Walker

“that England is under the rule of a patriarchy. Nobody in their senses could fail to detect the dominance of the professor. His was…

— Virginia Woolf

“I had no idea that such individuals existed outside of stories. A STUDY IN SCARLET, SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE”

— Brittany Cavallaro

“Clarence Hervey might have been more than a pleasant young man, if he had not been smitten with the desire of being thought superior…

— Maria Edgeworth

“Mr. Beresford put down the Daily Mail, which he was reading, and applauded with somewhat unnecessary vigour. He was politely requested by his colleague…

— Agatha Christie

“The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

A few hours after the news broke about the death of crime writer Donald E. Westlake, a newspaper asked me to write a tribute.…

— Sarah Weinman

“Much of his time at Oxford passed by his own account under a dark cloud of listlessness and depression. He was dismayed by the…

— Hilary Spurling

“Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from that of…

— George Gissing