Admired Quote by Edward Rutherfurd

“What were her abilities? She played the pianoforte passably well even though it didn't interest her. She loved to read and could spend the…

— Karen Ranney

“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.”

— Wendy Wax

“Her life was more like a series of tattered Post-it notes with hastily scribbled goals written in dull pencil. Some of them stuck. Lots…

— Tracy Brogan

“And when she was home, she spent her days lolling about the house reading mystery novels, watching television, and drinking wine. She watered and…

— Kathy Cooperman

“There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“She was a rapidly rising anchor. She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand…

— Douglas Adams

“I like how her New England accent cuts through her words, too. Mati reinvents the alphabet when she’s mad.”

— Rebecca Paula

“She'd read in novels of people who couldn't speak because their hearts were too full and she'd always thought, Not my black heart. But…

— Loretta Chase

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was…

— Robert Goolrick

“She read to find out what it was like to be French or Russian in the nineteenth century, to be a rich New Yorker…

— Penelope Lively

“A nervous enthusiasm rolled around Maeve’s body and she said”

— Diana Orgain

“...she said all writers were prima donnas, drunks, social misfits, pompous, or depressed. Brilliant, maybe, but completely crazy.”

— Ilsa J. Bick