Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Coe

Also I had financial worries because it took four years to write and we were living off my wife's income all that time, which wasn't very great.

Joanna Trollope

It's not so much hearth as family life which is where we all, I'm sure, learn (or fail to learn!) all our life skills for the future.

Rumer Godden

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

Thomas Hardy

If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

Jean Rhys

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

Charles McCabe

Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art.

Charles McCabe

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

Jonathan Coe

So no, I'm pleased if it's been influential for many readers, but at the time I didn't even know that it was going to have any readers.

Mark Haddon

That's important to me, to find the extraordinary inside the ordinary.