History Quote by Jane Hawking

“Stephen watched the three glasses being raised from the counter as his father and his two cronies drank to the memory of their past.…

— James Joyce

I felt that Stephen had become such a significant figure, a scientist of such international renown, that at some future date, someone would be…

— Jane Hawking

The family and Stephen were my reason for being. Without that, I felt I was nothing.

— Jane Hawking

“Drinking had become Myra's staple answer to all of life’s problems. Sometimes it felt like alcohol had replaced Stephen as Itzy’s second parent.”

— Vrinda Pendred

“Could Stephen have met men on equal terms, she would always have chosen them as her companions; she preferred them because of their blunt,…

— Radclyffe Hall

I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis,…

— Danzy Senna

Early influences included Lorrie Moore, Amy Hempel, Charles Baxter, Richard Ford, Alice Munro, Denis Johnson - writers who are important to me still and…

— Laura van den Berg

“Through learning at my later date things I hadn't known, or had escaped or possibly feared realizing, about my parents - and myself -…

— Eudora Welty

“I spend my life folded between pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived loss…

— Tahereh Mafi

After the success of Stephen's book, a whole new crowd of people became very interested in him, and the family was just pushed into…

— Jane Hawking

Ben Marcus has created an innovative and unflinching portrait of the turmoil of the human condition, providing the reader a most rare gift: something…

— Myla Goldberg

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lives loss…

— Tahereh Mafi