Faces Quote by Maggie O'Farrell

“Sometimes books feel like the only thing that keep her sane. Actually, she knows that they're the only reason she's still even vaguely okay…

— Steph Bowe

Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of…

— Jincy Willett

A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.

— Cinda Williams Chima

She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been…

— Louise Erdrich

She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set…

— Charles Frazier

“The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and…

— Virginia Woolf

“Writers of literature, if they are real writers, know that their readers are confused about reality and the emotions derived from that reality and…

— Noah Cicero

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea…

— Alan Bennett

Love your material. Nothing frightens the inner critic more than the writer who loves her work. The writer who is enamored of her material…

— Allegra Goodman

“She buried herself in books because it was easier to fall in love with a fictional character than it is to deal with the…

— Vanessa Trinita

“She imagined the reading she did now as like climbing inside one of those deep old beds she'd seen in a museum, with a…

— Tessa Hadley