Nice things Quote by Paula McLain

“Gloria was sure she wanted but to read and dream and be fed tomato sandwiches and lemonades by some angelic servant still in a…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And so the little poet poetized away his never-ending poem and even the silliest woman could poetize with him. But they couldn't be together.…

— Nescio

“In this couple defects were multiplied, as if by a dangerous doubling; weakness fed upon itself without a counterstrength and they were trapped, defaults,…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“I tried to lose myself in books. Our house is packed with them, and we keep adding more. Like my mother, I love mystery…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“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 was sunshine on a rainy day, a rainbow against gray clouds, hope in a Catholic school uniform. She was why poetry was written…

— S.L. Scott

“...it seemed almost inconceivable that in his short marriage to Althea she had, in her quiet way, left him feeling not only worthy, but…

— Andre Dubus III

“If all literary women had such thoughtful angels for husbands, they would live longer and write more. Perhaps that wouldn't be such a blessing…

— Louisa May Alcott

“After I consumed Frost in his entirety, my days of exploration began. I read The Diving Comedy while leafing through E. E. Cummings. I…

— Spencer Gordon

“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity and her flaming self respect and it’s these things I’d believe in even if the…

— Robyn Schneider

“The book was Shelley, and it opened at a passage that he had cherished greatly two years before, and marked as “very good.” “I…

— E.M. Forster

“Married against their will, kept in one room, and to one occupation, how could a dramatist give a full or interesting or truthful account…

— Virginia Woolf