Books Quote by Joanna Russ

“Plenty of times I've seen writers, famous novelists and essayists, even poets, with names you'd recognize and whose work I admire, drift through these…

— Richard Ford

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

— Flora Tristan

“I’m not beholden to the confirmation of your prejudices; to be perfectly frank, the prospect of confining the female characters in my story to…

— Scott Lynch

“As I said, I started with poetry, and I also wrote criticism and dialogue. But I realized that I was most successful at dialogue.…

— Eugène Ionesco

“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults…

— Matthew Lewis

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

“I scanned the criticisms of recent books to see if there were any that resembled mine. I resented them all; it seemed to me…

— Daphne du Maurier

“Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of time coaching…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

“My own luck was being born white and middle-class into a house full of books, with a father who encouraged me to read and…

— Adrienne Rich

“I disliked them all immediately, sitting around acting clever and superior. They nullified each other. The worst thing for a writer is to know…

— Charles Bukowski

“public display and operatic suffering—an in-your-face owning of one’s vulnerability and fucked-upness to the point of embarrassing and offending tight-asses is a powerful feminist…

— Dodie Bellamy

“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to…

— Lee Siegel