Appeal Quote by Patrick deWitt

Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In Franny and…

— K. M. Soehnlein

I have two sisters, and I think siblings are always going to be irresistible for novelists. They have been throughout time and they'll continue…

— Maggie O'Farrell

Literary prizes serve a purpose if they allow for discussion of books.

— Richard Flanagan

Generally, literary prizes are significant not for who the winner is but the discussion they create around books.

— Richard Flanagan

“Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. ~Margaret Mead”

— Margaret Mead

It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies…

— Elizabeth Crook

Sisters have ways of socializing brothers into the mysteries of girls. Brothers have ways of socializing sisters into the puzzle that is boys.

— Jeffrey Kluger

For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us and they always win.

— Serena Williams

The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about…

— Min Jin Lee

I'm not at all snobby about book prizes and how they pollute the world of literature. Just like with the Olympics, a little bit…

— Emma Donoghue

“Sisters and brothers are the truest, purest forms of love, family and friendship, knowing when to hold you and when to challenge you, but…

— Carol Ann Albright Eastman

I've always loved sister stories in fiction, from the time I was little, reading about Beezus and Ramona. I've always wanted to write a…

— Emily Giffin