Books Quote by Charles Bukowski

“She had to make her own marvelous mistakes.”

— Paul Scott

“She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.”

— Michael Cunningham

“She was too dependent on what other people thought of her, and that was her downfall. She cared too much. She was only what…

— Steph Bowe

“She begin to read. And read. And in short order, she became dangerous.”

— Jason Porath

“She had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many…

— Robin McKinley

“There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“I suspected those people were seeking to make sense of the world by turning her into a cautionary tale, the lesson being, look both…

— Stacey Kade

“...She was, in fact, often wrong--and knew it. Life became difficult when those who were often wrong did not know it.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“This was wrong, dangerous, stupid...and necessary to the survival off her soul.”

— Grace Burrowes

“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 was pretty and smart, which makes her death a tragedy.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“Disdaining the heroic outfit, excitable in her methods, garrulous, episodical, shrill, she misled her lover much as she misled her aunt. He mistook her…

— E.M. Forster