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- With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. -- Lope de Vega
- I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books. -- Zoe Wanamaker
- I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.' And I loved the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. -- Mary Pope Osborne
- The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden. -- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise. -- Jeffery Deaver
- I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out. -- Maeve Binchy
- I pored over art books and absorbed the placidness of Monet's garden, the sparkling color of the Impressionists, the strength and solidity of Michelangelo's figures showing the titanic power of humans at one with God, Jan Vermeer's serene Dutch women bathed in gorgeous honey-colored light... My conviction grew that art was stronger than death. -- Susan Vreeland
- My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women. -- Frank Crowninshield
- The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and the birds and the sky. -- Jane Goodall
- While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by something I care about. I care so deeply. The stories are my dreams, and I want to do a lot of research. Roberto is based on a real live friend of mine named Armando who worked in my garden. -- Luanne Rice
- I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed. -- Jeanette Winterson
- May I a small house and large garden have;And a few friends,And many books, both true. -- Abraham Cowley
- I'd leave all the hurry, the noise, and the fray, for a house full of books, and a garden of flowers. -- Andrew Lang
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