Dream Quote by David Starkey

Elizabeth Hay has intelligence coming out of her fingertips - integrity, insight, and wonder in every paragraph of her writing.She connects. She stirs and…

— Timothy Findley

I think psychologically [Margaret Thatcher] is really worth studying. I am reading Charles Moore's biography of her, and he has gotten us right there…

— Hilary Mantel

“The other day I came across a book which illustrates in a rather droll way the extent to which Northern European women have taken…

— Sigrid Undset

“Because I write women’s history I rarely have the luxury of a full and fair biography to study. Until about 1960 there were very…

— Philippa Gregory

“Right now she is reading Virginia Woolf, all of Virginia Woolf, book by book-She is fascinated by the idea of a woman like that,…

— Michael Cunningham

“It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in what they were pleased to call the "problem" of…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I am concerned that people who admire [Ayn] Rand are not often critical enough of the extent to which she has abridged the implications…

— Murray Bookchin

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

“She is certainly a world renowned author today and she is said to have a net worth more than that of the Queen.   Her”

— Kevin Johnson

“The sheer vital energy of the Woolfs always astonishes me when I stop to consider what they accomplished on any given day. Fragile she…

— May Sarton

I'll read anything Anne Carson writes, anything J. M. Coetzee writes, and anything Cormac McCarthy writes. I'll drop whatever I'm doing to read a…

— Anthony Doerr

“Margaret Lea.” “The biographer.”

— Diane Setterfield