Books Quote by Mary Lascelles

“I am by profession an agent and no writer, so you will have to pardon any lack of literary flourish.”

— Julian Darius

“What an amusing drama life is when one is not obliged to be one of the characters!”

— Robertson Davies

“There's supposed to be drama. The dull stories never make it into the books.”

— Ellery Adams

“In every book she’d ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“As women, we are the protagonists of our own personal novels. We are called upon to be the heroines of our own lives, not…

— Erin Blakemore

“This book is a drama, whose leading personage is the Infinite.”

— Victor Hugo

“She had a sense of comedy that was really exquisite, but she needed people, always people, to bring it out, with the inevitable result…

— Virginia Woolf

“When a woman enters my house, a tunnel of books welcomes her, a carnival of heroes bounces from every corner, and I lead her…

— Rawi Hage

“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.”

— Wendy Wax

“The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.”

— Aristotle

“The story can be great but the characters make the book”

— R.P. Heinz

“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not…

— Victoria Connelly