34 Quotes by Catherine Lowell

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

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 . . .

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

Isn't there some truth in all fiction?" "There's some fiction in all truth too.

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

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.

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

Focused men are painfully attractive.