Books Quote by Emma Healey

Although my father's mother, Nancy, has dementia, and her experiences gave me ideas for some of the scenes in the book, it was my…

— Emma Healey

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

— Barbara Pym

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her…

— Ian Mcewan

You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it?

— Jodi Picoult

I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and…

— Amber Benson

“Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad at real…

— Alexander McCall Smith

I've found that once people are introduced to Madam Walker's story, they are inspired but also perplexed about why she was omitted from their…

— A'Lelia Bundles

She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

“I’ve never forgotten that look, though it lasted only a few seconds. She seemed drawn to something in me, or in the scene I…

— Catriona Ross

The stories never said why she was wicked. It was enough to be an old woman, enough to be all alone, enough to look…

— Terry Pratchett

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.

— Wole Soyinka