Eccentric Quote by Melvyn Bragg

I never met Barbara Cartland. But now that I'm working on her life, I wish I had. I think there was a lot of…

— Mel Smith

“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

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

— Barbara Pym

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and…

— Miranda July

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

Back in middle school, Catherine and I had gone through this stage where all we would read were fantasy books. We'd consume them like…

— Meg Cabot

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in…

— David Mitchell

“Sara, who snatched her lessons at all sorts of untimely hours from tattered and discarded books, and who had a hungry craving for everything…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“I don’t know where you got the idea that the quality of a novel should be judged by the likability of its characters, but…

— John Green

I always liked Barbara Howar and admired her spunk. I know that she considered me - and Alice Roosevelt Longworth - an exception to…

— Katharine Graham

Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.

— Edith Sitwell

I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and heartbreakingly real…

— Julia Quinn