Books Quote by Dan Wilbur

Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so…

— Roger Ebert

Writers can't write as fast as governments make wars; because to write demands thinking.

— Bertolt Brecht

“As Jane Austen once wrote in her diary, "I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I…

— Jim Denney

Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have…

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate 'relationship' involving (ideally) two successful careerists in…

— Wendell Berry

During a long and varied career as a bachelor, dear spouse [mock platform manner], I have noticed that marriage is usually the death of…

— Arnold Bennett

“... ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection, but Angelfield was an odd fellow, and there it was.”

— Diane Setterfield

“This might seem excessive; ten years of marriage is usually enough to cure marital affection,”

— Diane Setterfield

marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Friendship is also a vital and wonderful part of courtship and marriage. A relationship between a man and a woman that begins with friendship…

— Marlin K. Jensen

I wrote two novels about a yoga studio in Los Angeles published by Penguin under the pen name Rain Mitchell.

— Stephen McCauley

I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me…

— David Quammen