Books Quote by Wendy Wax

“And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do, and by…

— Joanna Russ

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

“In every book she’d ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served to harden…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write,…

— Frederick Weisel

“After finishing a good book, it was sometimes days before she could shake off that other reality; the one she'd dipped into, leaving the…

— Ann Sutherland

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“A good Author is willing to read as much as she writes”

— SarahMyriaCarter

“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in…

— Jane Austen

“The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is and will…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most…

— John Fowles

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

— Stella Gibbons

“One great pleasure of being a writer is possessing the power to determine the fate of my characters and how the story will end.”

— Terry a O'Neal