Blessed Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

— Anonymous

“Most of her contemporaries simply don't understand why she has all these paper books, or indeed all this paper. It's a hands-on craving. I…

— Carla Speed McNeil

“She deliberately cultivated relationships with natural philosophers, publishers, and patrons as well as artists…,contacts who would help her build her business.”

— Kim Todd

When Nature her great masterpiece designed,And framed her last, best work, the human mind,Her eye intent on all the wondrous plan,She formed of various…

— Robert Burns

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

— Agatha Christie

“She drew the line at television. It took no effort to watch – it was infinitely more beneficial to the soul, and to the…

— John Irving

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doing them with the right…

— Nicholas Sparks

She's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the…

— Ayn Rand