Book Quote by Maria Semple

Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

— Mark Twain

I feel like Nina came into my life to help me grow, and since I met her, everything in our careers has been amazing.

— Amanda Nunes

Donna Tartt blows me away - that impeccable writing, so rich you could eat it and so luminous that it lights up the whole…

— Tana French

I just think she was a wonderful woman. What I think of when I think of Nina [Simone] is someone that I could relate…

— Nikki Giovanni

But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

— David Nicholls

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've…

— Alexandra Fuller

It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide!

— Mark Ravenhill

Me as nina the killer

— Me

In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity that reading…

— Margot Livesey

“Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement." from Mr.…

— Chris Van Allsburg

“This is a wonderfully sexy, sweet adventurous novel. I'm not normally a fan of romance novels, but this was more than just romance. This…

— Fan from Amazon

“...I think a book adaptation doesn't have to be just like the book, it has to feel like the book. That's what you want.…

— Kate Egan