Books Quote by Sarah Weinman

Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over…

— Carson McCullers

“...our literature has fallen upon evil days...Read the latest book. What do you find? Simple anecdotes: murder, suicide and accident stories copied right out…

— J.K. Huysmans

“An evening. At six o’clock lay down on the sofa. Slept until about eight. Couldn’t get up, waited for the clock to strike, and…

— Franz Kafka

“There are days when my imagination in my enemy. It likes to keep me company in my darkest of times and romanticizes a past…

— Alfa H

“The evils arising from the loss of her uncle were neither trifling nor likely to lessen; and when thought had been freely indulged, in…

— Jane Austen

“do you dare to step in- to the vulnerable black, stripped to the soul with human blindness – when the full and weeping moon…

— Beth Morey

“The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories--mad wives in the attic, strange apparitions in Belgium--are a representation of the life she…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“It is symptomatic of the constricting specialism and the oppressive burden of fact of our time that it has been left to the imagination…

— Royston Lambert

“A day without someone to hold you or a day without someone to share, is a day easily forgotten.’ - Vera Richardson in Mr…

— D.M. Lee

This is intimacy: the trading of stories in the dark.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“These dynamics are, Sedgwick argues, at the center of the "paranoid Gothic"; narratives like Frankenstein or Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner, in which…

— Noah Berlatsky

“Heartache may be bad for the soul, but it's great for bookshops. It's when we are at our lowest romantic ebb that we are…

— Alain de Botton