Books Quote by Kim Wright Download Open image ““In novels, women run off with their lovers. In real life, women stay.”” — Kim Wright ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Feminism Life Love Lovers Novels Novels Women Real life Run Lovers Women Stay
“Whatever happens in a romance novel doesn't always have to stay in one.” — Renee Alexis Copy Share Image
“This is not a novel about a woman leaving home, but rather a human being finding her way back.” — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“It is possible for YA heroines to go an entire book without discussing their love lives.” — Celine Kiernan Copy Share Image
“As women, we are the protagonists of our own personal novels. We are called upon to be the heroines of our own lives, not… — Erin Blakemore Copy Share Image
“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.” — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
“Kill the women? No – nobody ever saw anything in the books like that. You fetch them to the cave, and you’re always as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.” — Sachin Kundalkar Copy Share Image
“I have only men like you n novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.” — Sachin Kundalkar Copy Share Image
“Sometimes things don't work out the way we want them to. Life was full of truths that don't play out in romance novels. Sometimes… — Lisa De Jong Copy Share Image
“She closed her eyes and prayed to whichever small ineffectual god protects the hearts of women.” — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
“Men deprived of female company quickly became fearsome creatures, and Trevor believed you could argue that civilization was in fact the invention of women,… — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
“It's true," I admit. I put two fingers up to my throat to feel my pulse. "I've never trusted anybody to catch me.” — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
“There’s no such thing as fate. It’s just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.” — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
“Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.” — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
“And despite it all, he has never been able to abandon hope that his betters will someday notice him. Will someday accept him as… — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
“For men rise or fall based entirely on what the women in their lives demand of them.” — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
“Fate drives cruel bargains. We must always release one thing before we can grasp something else.” — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
“I keep a pen in my hand so that I can underline anything that strikes me as particularly interesting or well written—it’s a quirk… — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
“I expect more from my life than the opportunity to be useful to a man.” — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
“If Anthony Weaver knew anything, it was this: That life and love and country and duty…that all of these things faded in time. They… — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
“It's funny. Writing is a solitary task, but in order to succeed at it, you need other people.” — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
