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Mary Ann Shaffer

  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    ‘Absolutely perfect and satisfying, and when you finish it you sit around wishing that you could find another book just like it’

    Stephanie Meyer
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    Now for my grim news. You asked me how work on my new book is progressing. Sidney, it isn’t.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    . I can’t seem to dredge up any sense of proportion or balance these days, and God knows one can’t write humour without them.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments. I should be thrilled
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    Charles Lamb made me laugh during the German Occupation, especially when he wrote about the roast pig.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    Because there is nothing I would rather do than rummage through bookshops.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    I have gone to them for years, always finding the one book I wanted – and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    Then, I further discovered, Lamb offered money to help Hunt’s family – though he himself was as poor as a man could be. Lamb also taught Hunt’s youngest daughter to say the Lord’s Prayer backwards. You naturally want to learn everything you can about a man like that.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    Come to that, how does he know where Susan and I are staying? What trains we are taking? All his flowers have been awaiting me on my arrival. I don’t know whether to feel flattered or hunted.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted2 years ago
    Are you taking notes? You should – a publisher should send not just one reader’s copy to a bookshop, but several, so that all the staff can read it, too.
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