Quote by John Irving

“She hated television but flicked through the channels until she hated it even more…”

— George D. Shuman

“She had a sense of comedy that was really exquisite, but she needed people, always people, to bring it out, with the inevitable result…

— Virginia Woolf

“She had witnessed in nauseating detail how the human world worked: its rituals of comfort (television, food, religion); its appetite for poison (television, food,…

— Clive Barker

“She was a rapidly rising anchor. She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand…

— Douglas Adams

“She was too dependent on what other people thought of her, and that was her downfall. She cared too much. She was only what…

— Steph Bowe

“Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought refuge in…

— Will Schwalbe

“Things were not so simple after all. She could not understand even her own feelings. She saw the most cherished of her convictions put…

— Virginia Woolf

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way…

— James M. Cain

“She was tired of people saying things they thought she wanted to hear almost as much as she dreaded them saying the things she…

— Freya North

“She was just like the rest of them—willfully ignorant, passionately believing in something because she surrounded herself with people who also passionately believed in…

— James Islington

“What she was doing, what she had just done, was for her not about frivolity, it was about the essential, about being human, living…

— Mohsin Hamid

“She looked at ways to quantify life. Analytic in nature, her head almost always overruled her heart. Love it? Hate it? She wanted to…

— Gregg Olsen