Astonishing Quote by Brendan O'Carroll

I don't know the secret of Mrs. Brown, but what I do know is that there are things that Mrs. Brown says and does…

— Brendan O'Carroll

Irene Bennett Brown keeps the promise of her gifted writing and love for history inside this fine contemporary mystery. I loved it.

— Jane Kirkpatrick

“In your modesty you seem to consider that writers are of different blood and bone from yourselves; that they know more of Mrs Brown…

— Virginia Woolf

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

— Dorothy Fields

In American Romances, her new book of essays, Rebecca Brown has a voice that is full of pop references, family stories, and the fruits…

— Susan Stinson

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He…

— Leslie Fiedler

I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

— Johnny Mathis

There was a period when I wrote in Nashville for Maverick and then Warner/Chappell, and it was interesting.

— Benmont Tench

"Southland" was not written for a black woman.

— Regina King

Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I was thinking…

— Danielle Dutton

'Band Played On' is a good one. Barbara Orbison, who was Roy's wife, was involved in publishing in Nashville because she oversaw Roy's publishing,…

— Joe Walsh

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write…

— Alden Nowlan