Comments on: Who is your favourite author?

By: maxwit

maxwit — Tue, 29 May 2012 10:29:32 +0000

What is it about Winton? He captures something deep in my psyche…..It is as if he has been with me right through my childhood. Those years when everything was new and raw and innocent….

By: maxwit

maxwit — Tue, 29 May 2012 10:25:25 +0000

That’s when you know it is good…..when you just have to read it out loud.

By: maxwit

maxwit — Tue, 29 May 2012 10:24:03 +0000

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen

By: F Scott Fitzgerald

F Scott Fitzgerald — Sat, 19 May 2012 05:13:16 +0000

I love anything written by Scott Fitzgerald. He could make the most common or obscure things beautiful with the aesthetic expression of his words. Especially love Tender is the Night and Great Gatsby. His work is really exquisite.

By: Sparky

Sparky — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:29:19 +0000

‘There is nowhere else I’d rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

Tim Winton – Land’s Edge

By: Rosieisamummyof2

Rosieisamummyof2 — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:27:25 +0000

Gabriel Garcia Marquez!!! And Lionel Shriver.

By: Kelly Exeter

Kelly Exeter — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:36:24 +0000

Aw I love this line!! Utterly poignant

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:38:24 +0000

I agree with Amee, To Kill a Mockingbird written by Haper Lee is absolutely the best book! It is a book that makes you laugh and cry alot. All the characters are fantastic but it is Atticus and Scout Finch that I love the most.

By: Monique

Monique — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:28:48 +0000

I’ve never highlighted a book (goes against my code on the treatment of books), but there are many things that have made me stop and read them again and again. I did this many times in Harry Potter and other books but I have two favourites, one from Nicholas Sparks, the other from John Green.

“Dusk, I realised then, is just an illusion, because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means the day and night are linked in a way that few things are; there cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel, I remember wondering, to be always together, yet forever apart?
Looking back, I find it ironic that she chose to read the letter at the exact moment that question popped into my head. It is ironic, of course, because I know the answer now. I know what it’s like to be day and night now; always together, forever apart.” ‘The Notebook’ by Nicholas Sparks.

“Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not f**k, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” ‘Looking for Alaska’ by John Green

By: Twinkletoes

Twinkletoes — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:23:57 +0000

I recently read the Paris Wife by Paula McLain and really enjoyed it. Although the main character (Ernest Hemingway’s first wife) came across very young and immature, I loved this line:
“There are some who said I should have fought harder or longer than I did for my marriage, but in the end fighting for a love that was already gone felt like trying to live in the ruins of a lost city, I couldn’t bear it and so I backed away.”
I think that is exactly how you would feel.