English writer Elizabeth Gaskell was born on 29th September 1810:
1832 miniature of Elizabeth Gaskell by William John Thomson
Fran Lebowitz Quote
Sidney Lumet Quote
“It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.”–Henry Beston
“Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.”–Philip Roth
“The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That’s not true with non-fiction.”–Tom Wolfe
“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one’s life and discover one’s usefulness.”–John Cheever
“No two persons ever read the same book.”–Edmund Wilson
(Still a favorite quote of mine.)
“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.”–Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin)Shelley
“A good book is an event in my life.”-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
