Quote by Mary Connealy

“Mary Connealy is a Carol Award winner and a RITA Award finalist. An author,”

— Mary Connealy

“in Hurricane Season, and still spends a significant amount of time there. She has worked as a newspaper reporter and a freelance journalist, and…

— Michaela Thompson

“She was also single, not a surprise. Her favourite book was the Bible, and she belonged to a number of Catholic groups. Religious and…

— Marshall Thornton

Oddly enough, Dame Edna is not interested in show business. Her friends in Los Angeles are mostly in the world of petroleum. She used…

— Barry Humphries

“James Joyce married a woman named Nora Barnacle. She once said to him, ‘Why don’t you write books people can read?”

— John Lloyd

“FINDING FORGIVENESS : THE EXTRAORDINARY LEGACY OF AMY BIEHL AND HER FAMILY”

— Kathleen McGowan

“Out of the three of us, she was the only one to graduate. Casey and I both dropped out. But rather than taking a…

— Sawyer Bennett

“Margaret grasped on to the magic of novels because they held out hope that Mary—and she herself—might yet have a chance at marriage. While…

— Tracy Chevalier

“Lately she’d been listening to books on tapes, fat womanly novels as she thought of them. Maeve Binchy, Gail Godwin, Marian Keyes. Pat Conroy—”

— Laura Lippman

Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just…

— Justin Cronin

“Carol’s early works were inspired by her difficult divorce and inner turmoil, and she urges people to embrace the dysfunction in their lives and…

— Gwen Blakley Kinsler

“Just be careful, Mary Jo. Be very careful. You've made mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes. One you should not make is to imagine that Christy…

— Patricia Briggs