About Quote by Charles J. Shields

Truman Capote was a magical, beautiful writer.

— Lisa Unger

I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have more books by her, there's something about…

— Charles Frazier

I don't think I'll ever lose the feeling that I had when I read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - Harper Lee was going back…

— Chris Crutcher

“It's not often you find someone who is a good friend and good writer, Charlotte was both.”

— E

“Books had been invented to salve human loneliness, and they were friends without peer, friends who never sneered or flinched or laughed behind a…

— Mary Jo Putney

Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my favorite teacher,…

— Mickey Rourke

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.

— Gustave Flaubert

I think Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out,…

— Barbara Mikulski

I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.

— Penelope Wilton

I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality…

— Alison McGhee

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.

— Kiran Desai

“Being friends as in writing letters was so much easier than being friends as in living together.”

— William Finnegan