Books Quote by Lisa Scottoline

“She hadn't written so much as a word of a story, but for the first time in a long time she felt she was…

— Paul Murray

“Writing kept her sane. Kept her form spinning out of control. Kept her tongue still whenever some white person spoke down to her. She…

— Bernice L. McFadden

“-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

“She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and…

— Lisa Genova

“It didn't matter to her whether she'd written anything brilliant. It just felt good to be able to write again.”

— Alexandra Monir

“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“She'd filled twelve notebooks and still she hadn't stopped. Indeed, the more she wrote, the louder the stories seemed to grow, swirling in her…

— Kate Morton

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith

“It's like all of the thoughts and feelings that i had scribbled down were lost along with the journals that held them. But i…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“We shared a passion for words, but I preferred the silence of writing while she loved to talk. She”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but she could…

— Nora Roberts

“Her journal, the only thing in the world that she owned, held the events of her life. Things she wanted to forget and things…

— Luke Alistar