Books Quote by Robert Walser

“Lena felt like a child. Worse than a child and less valuable. She felt like a mouse. No, smaller than a mouse and less…

— Ann Brashares

“We were lying on the blanket in the backyard of 37 Brooks, like we always did that summer. Lena was on her side, cheek…

— Lauren Oliver

“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in the foregoing…

— Joanna Russ

“But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their…

— Jane Austen

“So I often saw my father writing under the lamp, scratching his head to find something to write about, even telling her that the…

— Richard Llewellyn

“A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh…

— Ernest Hemingway

“And I remembered now, too, my inadvertent youthful condescension, when the woman had said, apologizing for some information she couldn't recall, "I still remember…

— Susan Choi

“My wife and I had called on Miss Stein, and she and the friend who lived with her had been very cordial and friendly…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Alexander speaks. “Anthony, I’m going to tell you something. In 1941, when I met your mother, she had turned seventeen and was working at…

— Paullina Simons

“Writing had become a constant partner. She had become my muse. The moments of my madness made me crave her. She was the reason…

— Avijeet Das

“It was piecework, and she was apt to have a family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic laws had arranged it that…

— Upton Sinclair

“She was quite a kindly woman. What she said at the last in the kitchen was quite true. ‘I didn’t want to kill anybody.’…

— Agatha Christie