Books Quote by Grace Paley

I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do with New York.

— Leighton Meester

“You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott (who badly…

— Nava Atlas

Edith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly elegant that…

— Lionel Shriver

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

— Michael Dirda

“they would soon be old enough to read The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit and Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, and eventually Iris…

— Will Schwalbe

“Eleanor Morris, a young patient who had dropped out of Bryn Mawr several years earlier, preserved a different memory of the sessions with Sexton.…

— Eleanor Morris

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

— Robert Goolrick

“Florence has a passion for books. When she saw the one she was seeking, she would recognize it, as if the volume had belonged…

— Lily Koppel

“Manhattan can be beautiful, Ellis, if you are willing to see it and not compare it to what you loved before”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

Many years from now when your children ask what New York City was like just after 9/11, this will be the book you give…

— Lee Child

“Books nurtured, guided and comforted me as a child. Books were my substitute parents and teachers, when the adults in my life failed me.”

— Anthon St. Maarten

“Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.”

— Richard Denney