Books Quote by Heidi Cullinan

“He would read King Lear and forget this filthy century.”

— George Orwell

“In his madness and his blindness he was Lear and Gloucester combined.”

— Susanna Clarke

“It was an irresistible novelty having a conversation about books with a stranger.”

— Jaclyn Dolamore

“His writing had become, like a stash of rare and troubling pornography, something that must be kept hidden, an obsession that other people would…

— Kevin Wilson

“From childhood he had been devoted to whatever was useless, metamorphosing the streetcar rattle of life into events of consequence, and when he began…

— Osip Mandelstam

“He didn’t remember that a mere book might reek of sex, possibility, fecundity. Yet a book has a ripe furrow and a yielding spine,…

— Gregory Maguire

“Virginia Woolf helps. Her novels make mine possible.”

— Sylvia Plath

“This was the stuff of novels with -- yeah -- men like him on the cover.”

— Erin Kellison

“I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.”

— Nicole Luiken

“I wanted something grand and sweeping." "The kind of love you find in novels?" "Maybe. That makes me incredibly stupid, I suppose.”

— Paula McLain

“Making love - having sex - with James had been like discovering a lie of omission. She had become more aware of things because…

— Delphine Dryden

“Because what I am also suddenly know thinking about is that it could be an absolutely autobiographical novel that would not start until I…

— David Markson