“Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?” Quote by Lawrence Block
“Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.” StillsBookHelpingLove LifeAdolescenceArrowsCatchersSlings And Arrows Author:Libba Bray
“So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic women who spurred the plot forward with their inevitable shunning/death/shunning-followed-by-pregnancy-followed-by-death timelines.” SchoolLiteratureClassHigh SchoolFilledInevitableTragicPlotPregnancySymbolicTimelinesShunningEnglish ClassSchool English Author:Libba Bray
“We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked, whether verbally or physically.” StillsLinesStepsColorExpectedAcceptedFemininity Author:Libba Bray
“Each time that I have two or three days off, I'm off somewhere in California.” TwoThreeCaliforniaDays Off Author:Lizzie Brochere
“I'm happy to work in the States because there are so many different and interesting projects. I'll go wherever people want me to work.” PeopleWantDifferentStatesInterestingProjectsWant Me Author:Lizzie Brochere
“In my day-to-day, I do a bit of yoga, I go biking, I read, I watch shows, I go to music concerts.” ShowsBitsWatchesYogaConcertsDay To DayBiking Author:Lizzie Brochere
“It'd be interesting to see a film from an alien perspective. Maybe we're the weird ones.” FilmInterestingPerspectiveAliens Author:Lizzie Brochere
“I have no interest in writing confessions, in deliberately baring myself to my readers. I prefer to remain behind a screen.” WritingInterestBehindsReaderScreensConfession Author:Louis Begley
“If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.” IfsLiteratureGoneCollegeMajorsHarvardComparative Literature Author:Louis Begley
“As you know, I am a novelist, and I really want to write novels. But I knew enough about the Dreyfus case to understand immediately why what happened to Dreyfus was not merely a cause celebre from the end of the 19th century, but an event that could be shown to teach us lessons of the greatest importance for our own time.” KnowsWantWritingEndsEnoughCausesTeachCasesNovelHappenedCenturyEventsLessonsImportanceNovelists19th Century Author:Louis Begley