Able Quote by Catharine MacKinnon

As a writer and as a human being, Susan Dworkin has always had the ability to draw us into new dreams of justice, and…

— Gloria Steinem

“She is a tyrant much in the way of a bad novelist, who shapes his characters according to his own ideology or desires and…

— Azar Nafisi

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

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I realised early on that being an author is a hugely misunderstood job.”

— Sara Sheridan

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage…

— Alan Bennett

“She was lionized, canonized, Nobel Prized (and was wonderfully inspirational, as disinterested in acclaim as in her ostracism, working until her nineties).”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Dessy, don't grow up to be a writer. Because when you live too much in your own head, you neglect the people you love…

— Kristen Tracy

“In every book she’d ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden…

— Kathleen Tessaro

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

— Michael Cunningham

When I began to write our story down, I thought I was writing a record of hate, but somehow the hate has got mislaid…

— Graham Greene

“She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her…

— Dean Koontz

“She was trying to write a novel, it was so slow, you had to destroy so much and start again; so hard to discover…

— John Fowles