Life Quote by Dudley Clendinen

“...she knew that in all stories she must be left out-the life she had made for herself was a life of flight, of discarding…

— Yiyun Li

When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.

— Markus Zusak

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

— Tad Williams

She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched…

— Michael Ondaatje

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage…

— Alan Bennett

“Yet the stories moved her. She couldn’t deny it. And they moved her in a way only *true* things could. It wasn’t sentiment that…

— Clive Barker

She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set…

— Charles Frazier

“She'd filled twelve notebooks and still she hadn't stopped. Indeed, the more she wrote, the louder the stories seemed to grow, swirling in her…

— Kate Morton

To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea…

— Alan Bennett

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

“she sees her life pass before her in rapid succession, like clouds, different shapes and different colors, merging, passing into one another, the story…

— Edna O'Brien