Goodreads Quote of the Day for Wednesday

Created: 2014-12-17 13:58 Updated: 2014-12-17 13:58 Notebook: Famous Quotes

On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken.

Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Fitzgerald (born December 17, 1916) was a star at university and expected to become a writer immediately, but war, marriage, and children got in the way. She published her first book, a biography of painter Edward Burne-Jones, when she was 58. Four years later, she was awarded the Booker Prize for Offshore, a novel set on a houseboat.


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