Being a good person Quote by Linda Yassine

“If only others knew that Lady Calpurnia Hartwell, proper, well-behaved spinster, entertained deep-seated and certainly unladylike thoughts about fictional heroes.”

— Sarah MacLean

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' less good work as their best work.”

— Joanna Russ

“From my recent blog tour interview: I recently spent time updating my Goodreads page to include the names of authors whose works inspire me,…

— Barbara James

“I don’t know where you got the idea that the quality of a novel should be judged by the likability of its characters, but…

— John Green

“I regretted what a serious teenager I'd been: There were no posters of pop stars or favorite movies, no girlish collection of photos or…

— Gillian Flynn

August Strindberg gave me the opportunity to have this incredible story [Miss Julie ], about the class system, about unfairness in life, but also…

— Liv Ullmann

“Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Many writers were better before they became famous.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.”

— Sara Sheridan

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“The fact is, parents and schools and cultures can and do shape people. The most important influence in my life, outside of my family,…

— Thomas L. Friedman