Heart Quote by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

“Her love of words is a private passion - one she would rather not share. In the house of her childhood though everything had…

— Bell Hooks

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be…

— Kate Morton

“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless agony of…

— Jane Austen

“She has a bookshelf for a heart, and ink runs through her veins, she’ll write you into her story with the typewriter in her…

— E.H

“She lives in the poetry she cannot write.”

— Oscar Wilde

She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.

— David Nicholls

“He searched her face for the hint of compassion. It wasn’t there. She had never written a word of fiction in her life. Why…

— James A. Newman

She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed; it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

— Nicholas Sparks

“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

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage…

— Alan Bennett

“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.”

— Alice Walker