Quote by Sylvia Plath

“I found myself thinking that I had always heretofore assumed that the tendency of eighteenth-century ladies to swoon was due to tight stays; now…

— Diana Gabaldon

“The truth, however, was that there was very little greatness. It was almost nonexistent, invisible. But you could be sure that the worst writers…

— Charles Bukowski

“What these young men feared and hated more than anything else was being spoken to by people they hadn't met, or having to explain…

— Ryū Murakami

“I scanned the criticisms of recent books to see if there were any that resembled mine. I resented them all; it seemed to me…

— Daphne du Maurier

“But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.”

— Naomi Wood

“It was enough to make you think fondly of those early days, of that “springtime” of the revolution when your teeth would be chattering…

— Teffi

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

“Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to…

— Hunter S. Thompson

“He didn’t stick around in the vicinity doing mysterious shit, sending messages to the heroine by a third party. He hauled his ass into…

— Charlaine Harris

“Maybe, I thought, I’ve given too much weight to the cultivated use of reason, to good reading, to well controlled language, to political affiliation;…

— Elena Ferrante

“I never knew what sad work the reading of old-letters was before that evening, though I could hardly tell why. The letters were as…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“The stray thought occurred to him that if it weren’t for women, in all their cloaks of unfathomed mysteries, men would lead very boring…

— Eliza Maxwell