Life Quote by Jostein Gaarder

“Her salvation was the novels she read. On nights she thought it might br better not to be alive w/o Levi in the world,…

— Alice Hoffman

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

— Maud Hart Lovelace

“Writing this, he had reached the pit of despair and he thought that reading it, she would at least begin to sense his tragedy…

— Flannery O'Connor

“-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading…

— James Hilton

“But of course, it had all been her – by her and about her, and now she was back in the world, not one…

— Ian McEwan

“Then there was survival. There was going on, as she had always gone on, without much joy, against her will, against her instincts, without…

— Robert Goolrick

“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing…

— David Nicholls

“When one was with her she could almost persuade one that there was something cowardly and despicable in any emotional dodging, in any refusal…

— Caroline Blackwood

“There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Writing had become a constant partner. She had become my muse. The moments of my madness made me crave her. She was the reason…

— Avijeet Das

“All the while, she understood that nothing could save her from the emptiness of the years that still had to be lived. Days passed,…

— Michelle de Kretser