Poetry Quote by Nona Balakian

“Reading Marguerite Young's 1,200-page Miss MacIntosh, My Darling was like slipping into a luxurious opium dream.”

— Steven Moore

“he was sure that she, with a little more time and a little more wisdom, would come to accept that the novels he liked…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I started out hoping to remind people at some point in the novel that we should be loving and kind. But then the theme…

— Patricia Hickman

“There is beauty in each word of a Book; as once it was just a mere thought in the authors head!”

— Mrudula G B

“Writing had become a constant partner. She had become my muse. The moments of my madness made me crave her. She was the reason…

— Avijeet Das

“The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur”

— Jane Austen

One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.

— Barack Obama

“I'm no writer, but still I want to record my days. And books have given me all the words I need. I just go…

— Tiffany McDaniel

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

— Wendy Wax

“But my considered opinion, after long reflection, is that, whilst in many places the effect of "Ulysses" on the reader undoubtedly is somewhat emetic,…

— John Munro Woolsey

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an…

— Robert Goolrick

“My great adventure is really Proust. Well-- what remains to be written after that? I’m only in the first volume, and there are, I…

— Virginia Woolf