First time Quote by Paul Murray

“Writing had always helped her, before. It always clarified her feelings and her thoughts, and she never felt like she could understand something fully…

— Lisa Scottoline

“her power of telling stories and of making everything she talked about seem like a story, whether it was one or not.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“-why had she found the story so absorbing? Of course it was quite possible she hadn't. Maybe she merely preferred a novel--any novel--to reading…

— James Hilton

“She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others,”

— Michael Ondaatje

“She'd filled twelve notebooks and still she hadn't stopped. Indeed, the more she wrote, the louder the stories seemed to grow, swirling in her…

— Kate Morton

“It didn't matter to her whether she'd written anything brilliant. It just felt good to be able to write again.”

— Alexandra Monir

“She sighed once, wishing she had a talent for the details of telling stories. She wasn't bad at themes, she mused, but she could…

— Nora Roberts

“She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and…

— Lisa Genova

“I was worried that if I told her the story, she would identify with it too much. That her sympathy, however well-meaning, would make…

— Olivia Sudjic

“Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most…

— John Fowles

“She wanted a book to take her places she couldn't get to herself. She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of…

— Louise Penny