Autobiography Quote by Berenice Bejo

She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what…

— Colleen McCullough

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out…

— Colin Meloy

Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman was one of those books I read in my mid-twenties that was life-changing. I think I…

— Elizabeth Peyton

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

— Pat Conroy

Helen Weaver’s book was a revelation to me! Although I was a young woman in the fifties, I was there, but I wasn’t there!…

— Carolyn Cassady

I basically read every book ever written about Marilyn Monroe.

— Megan Fox

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.

— Joseph McCarthy

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

— Agatha Christie

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith

In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and…

— Eavan Boland

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith