Figures Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

— Hilary Mantel

I really did like 'The Wolf of Wall Street.' But not seeing women represented in that world, it definitely had less resonance for me.

— Anna Gunn

The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.

— Michael Dirda

Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles';…

— John Lahr

I basically read every book ever written about Marilyn Monroe.

— Megan Fox

[The Women's Room by Marilyn French] was in my house somewhere, blew my mind, I was changed forever. And then I continued to read…

— June Diane Raphael

“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

I mean this is not like a very dry political book. This is - it was a very quick and entertaining and interesting read…

— Eleanor Smeal

You just knew you were in great hands with somebody so talented, so bright and with such depth. We both [with Ellen Page] loved…

— Evan Rachel Wood

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

— Ford Madox Ford

I am excited by... the new novel by Samantha Hunt. She's a writer I really admire a lot.

— Rick Moody

I felt more connected to Gabrielle Chanel's story than I expected to. Her avant-garde leanings, her eclectic background, what a modern free-thinking woman she…

— Taylor Russell