Celebrity culture Quote by Boris Pasternak

“Interested citizens could follow a lady from the Historical Society up the spiral of stairs to the gallery at the top, where they could…

— Stephen King

“I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk Past”

— John Green

“It reminded me how, at work that week, there'd been a meeting when a client visited, a woman, and after she'd left the conference…

— Rosecrans Baldwin

“As we walked, I kept taking glances at her through the crowd, quick snapshots: a photographic series entitled Perfection Stands Still While Mortals Walk…

— John Green

“She pushed open the door to the restaurant. More lunchtime bustle, mostly women in hats with their coats thrown over the backs of chairs,…

— Alice McDermott

“The women were blank, shining areas with photographs of sad girls floating in them.”

— Denis Johnson

“Waiting rooms were made for books—of course!”

— Stephen King

“Somehow, though, neither her clothes nor her features seemed to matter—they were the adornments of a painting or a picture, not the real thing.…

— Benedict Jacka

“The women looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were very clumsy about the waist. They had all full white sleeves…

— Bram Stoker

“...a row of tables manned by seated, serious women. Each woman looked like she could be someone's least-favourite aunt.”

— Adam Rex

“There were about thirty of them, I think - all women; all seated at tables, bearing drinks and books and papers. You might have…

— Sarah Waters

“rooms. They were upstairs. At the back of the shop a spiral staircase led up to a balcony overlooking the dresses below. A dozen…

— Angela Roquet