Books Quote by Michael Ondaatje

“It was terrifying, liberating, and risky. But one day I woke up and decided to try it." (On writing her first novel, "Miss Dreamsville…

— Amy Hill Hearth

“presumed that the reader was as fascinated by her life as she was - which was a deadly mistake. The other deadly mistakes she…

— Charles Bukowski

“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

“She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things. She had tried being in a…

— David Nicholls

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her…

— Ian Mcewan

“Blanche Ingram, after having repelled, by supercilious taciturnity, some efforts of Mrs Dent and Mrs Eshton to draw her into conversation, had first murmured…

— Charlotte Bronte

“I'm more excited than I'll admit when my hand closes around the paperback. It's like I've been handed a secret, a piece of her…

— Amy Matayo

“It was like skimming through a novel without fully engaging with the story until a well-turned phrase or powerful bit of imagery snagged her…

— Karen Witemeyer

“I was in the midst of narrating a wicked chapter where the heroine is tied up and blindfolded, when it finally happened.”

— Genna Rulon

“After finishing a good book, it was sometimes days before she could shake off that other reality; the one she'd dipped into, leaving the…

— Ann Sutherland

“Later, after Rule became famous, she stopped writing those kind of books and started writing about a different kind of true-crime case. She started…

— Bill James

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith