Debut Quote by Lisa McMann

People think I'm thick because of the characters I play. I think I'm brighter than the characters. Well, I hope I am.

— Kevin Whately

“Come to the jacaranda tree at seven o'clock and you will hear something to your advantage. Destroy this note.' No signature, no clue to…

— Kerry Greenwood

I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like…

— Rainbow Rowell

'Shadow and Bone' was my first book, and I think I was unconsciously echoing a lot of the fantasy that I had grown up…

— Leigh Bardugo

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't intentionally try to find the scripts with unattractive characters, but I think that if a character is described in a script as…

— Amy Adams

Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.

— Andrea Barrett

In TheColorful Apocalypse, Greg Bottoms explores the frontier between inspiration and psychosis with the expressive power, the passionate fervor, and the faithfully unflinching honesty…

— Madison Smartt Bell

My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth.

— Isabel Allende

I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with a blotched…

— Daphne du Maurier

She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would…

— Terry Pratchett