Books Quote by Robert Galbraith

“Being a writer is a lot like being a mother, only books don't talk back when they get older.”

— Nandi Berry

“It is my opinion that every woman can be a writer.”

— Anton Chekhov

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

“It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is…

— Jean Stafford

“The truth is I wasn't brought into the world to write newspaper articles. But it's quite likely I was brought into the world to…

— Albert Camus

“Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.”

— Geraldine Solon

“He says unloved women have no biographies—they have histories.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said.”

— John Wyndham

“But perhaps one day I will be entrusted with daughters of my own, and if so, I swear I will not see their minds…

— Geraldine Brooks

“A writer is anyone who follows only the truth of who they are, without ever relying on anything other than the poverty and solitude…

— Christian Bobin

“I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' less good work as their best work.”

— Joanna Russ

“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.”

— Stella Gibbons