I am Quote by Emma Healey

“After an hour of gliding though the crowd and two glasses of tepid wine later, Penelope had reached the spiritual state of being merrily…

— Anya Wylde

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady.

— Dave Mustaine

Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe.…

— Maria Semple

Her fluency was marvelous. She would say things at random, intricate, flamelike, or slide off into a parenthetical limbo peppered with fireworks-- admirable linguistic…

— Henry Miller

“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.” Such is…

— Jane Austen

Penelope Spheeris is a wonderful lady. She's a very talented director, and I curse better because of her.

— Dave Mustaine

“Daisy realized that her heart had begun to thump just as it had when she had read the more lurid passages of 'The Plight…

— Lisa Kleypas

I'm slightly in awe of writers, such as Sophie Hannah, who follow outlines.

— Tana French

I used to get called Lady Penelope at school because the other kids thought I spoke nicely.

— Penny Lancaster

“She was a great and insatiable reader, surprisingly well acquainted with the classics of literature, and unexpectedly lavish in the purchase of books. Her…

— Edith OE. Somerville Martin Ross

Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one…

— Melvyn Bragg

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and…

— Miranda July