Books Quote by Louise Erdrich

“...she could see it now, what her father loved about Shakespeare, about that entire, mysterious time, with its pomp and majesty, secrets and betrayals.”

— Elise Broach

“Something in her was changing as she read the books. Life after life flashed before her eyes, yet she stayed safe from misery. And…

— Louise Erdrich

“The life of Shakespeare is a fine mystery and I tremble every day lest something turn up.”

— Charles Dickens

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest.…

— Oscar Wilde

“She spent all her free time either drawing the strange things she saw in her dreams, or with her nose inside historical novels. The…

— Lisa Cach

“To her amazement, she realized that the way of life of these people was nothing more than an indeterminate fiction, casually knotted together at…

— Gerhard Amanshauser

“She knew she was a purveyor of costume, of disguise, a fabricator of persona, one who touched only the protective surface, never the skin,…

— Jane Urquhart

“Never in her life had she seen such literary men. They were incredibly vain, but made no secret of it, as though they were…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“He had a feeling that somewhere in the course of her life something had happened to her, something terrible which in the end had…

— Louis Bromfield

“Everyone whirled around her, entranced by the stories in which they recognized themselves, but in the stories they were also more than themselves and…

— Francesca Block

“It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges…

— Daphne Kalotay

“It’s no game. Believe me, she is a woman of far greater complexity than you—or anyone—realize. The secrets inside her mind are like flowers…

— Fumiko Enchi