Reflective Quote by Freya North

“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 had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many…

— Robin McKinley

“... unpacked her books, her sweet delight in happier days, and her soothing resource in the hours of moderate sorrow: but there were hours…

— Ann Radcliffe

“She'll be an excellent novelist: a monster of self-absorption.”

— Lan Samantha Chang

“...ever since she had read the girl's novel, a piece of artistry that struck her as wish-fulfilment at its most blatant...”

— Margaret Westhaven

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

— Barbara Pym

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

“In every book she’d ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“Something in her was changing as she read the books. Life after life flashed before her eyes, yet she stayed safe from misery. And…

— Louise Erdrich

“We needed to get back to the times of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy or Tristan and Isolde. Where you felt that life altering,…

— Emily McKee

“Polly finished her huge narrative during the summer term. The day after she had finished it, she went round with the oddest mixture of…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“they filled her with the most astonishing sensation of synthesis-as though all the most disparate elements of her biography were at last knitting together.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert