Brilliance Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

— Oscar Wilde

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

— Michael Cunningham

What fervent love of herself would Virtue excite if she could be seen!

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Yet genius of a sort must have existed among women as it must have existed among the working classes. Now and again an Emily…

— Virginia Woolf

…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but…

— Vladimir Nabokov

She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing…

— Tom Perrotta

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

— Ernest Hemingway

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the…

— Ayn Rand

“What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life...and promise.”

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent…

— Virginia Woolf

She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set…

— Charles Frazier

“She Is Remarkable Salute to the woman who knows who she is And why she is who she is A powerful being Once thrown…

— Gift Gugu Mona