Best 15 quotes of Catherine Lowell on MyQuotes

A new adaptation of Jane Eyre came out every year, and every year it was exactly the same. An unknown actress would play Jane, and she was usually prettier than she should have been. A very handsome, very brooding, very 'ooh-la-la' man would play Rochester, and Judi Dench would play everyone else.

An imagination left alone in the dark can be a terrible thing.

Are there any leading men in your life?" "Several, but they're all fictional.

Focused men are painfully attractive.

His expression was impassive. Somewhere, I just knew, he must have a slew of illegitimate children, all named Bartholomew.

I call that creativity," Orville said. "The purpose of literature is to teach you how to THINK, not how to be practical. Learning to discover the connective tissue between seemingly unrelated events is the only way we are equipped to understand patterns in the real world.

I realized that my life of late had consisted of far too much dialogue and not enough exposition. I imagined an angry, bespectacled English teacher slashing his pen through the transcript of my life, wondering how someone could possibly say so much and think so little.

My father used to say that all protagonists were versions of the author who wrote them—even if it meant the author had to acknowledge a side of himself that he did not know existed. It just required courage.

The curtains were blood-red and drawn. This was not an office. It was a small library, two storeys high, with thin ladders and impractical balconies and an expansive ceiling featuring a gaggle of naked Greeks. It was the sort of library you'd marry a man for.

The great reward given to intelligent people is that they can invent all the rules and equate any dissent with stupidity.

There was no romantic ending for Charlotte, but that's where writing your own novel can be so useful.

This was not a novel. It was a force of nature. Here, in my hands, was the collective imagination of a million teenage girls. Jane Eyre was one of the most famous novels ever written . . . It was the reason that women today secretly fantasized about mystery, danger, and brooding men. Jane Eyre was a twisted Cinderella story . . .

Usually, meaning tends to find you, in the middle of the night, and when you least expect it.

Wuthering Heights, considered the most romantic book ever written by those who had never read it carefully.

You'd be amazed to discover all the tangible things that can come out of dreams." "Like drool?