American literature Quote by Christopher Bollen

There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of…

— David Nicholls

“The writer was able to capture many of the feelings that I actually had as a abandoned and then adopted child. Actually I have…

— David Brodzinsky

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage tells of a young boy's travels through the black heart of Depression American and his search for…

— Lucius Shepard

“I’ve read countless literary works that detail the longing and ache that characters have for someone they love, and over time, I have developed…

— Jessica Park

Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.

— Ronald D. Moore

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

— H. L. Mencken

“An old maid, that’s what I’m to be. A literary spinster, with a pen for a spouse, a family of stories for children, and…

— Louisa May Alcott

“. . . the romantic teenager buried deep inside her was weeping at the perversion of her love story. There was no hero in…

— Anna Zaires

“I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Glorious theater. It creates family for all kinds of orphans. -- Wade Coenen in "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”

— Rebecca Wells

“I'm thinking of that Florida lady again, the one who wanted a book about the lighter side of a child's death, and I know:…

— Elizabeth McCracken