Author: Jackie Kay

Cites

• Gustave Flaubert (1)
  • IN: Reality, Reality (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We writers may think we invent too much -- but reality is worse every time.
    FROM: The Funeral, (None), Short Story, France
• Ali Smith (1)
  • IN: Reality, Reality (2012) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: It really happened in really real life.
    FROM: There but for the, (2011), Novel, UK
• George Gershwin (1)
  • IN: Trumpet (1998) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The way you wear your hat; The way you sip your tea, The memory of all that -- No, no! They can't take that away from me!
    FROM: They Can't Take That Away from Me, (1937), Song, US

Cited by

• Ali Smith (1)
  • IN: Public Library (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This same book in a stranger's hands, half-known. Those readers, kindred spirits, almost friends. You are in transition; you are on the threshold. The library is the place that gets you. Pure gold.
    FROM: Dear Library, (2014), Poem, UK
• Val McDermid (1)
  • IN: Trick of the Dark (2010) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: I had been told about her. How she would always, always. How she would never, never. I'd watched and listened But I still fell for her, How she always, always. How she never, never.
    FROM: "Her", (None), Poem, UK