Author: Rose Tremain

Cites

• Michel de Montaigne (2)
  • IN: The Gustav Sonata (2016) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: If anyone should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I feel it could not otherwise be expressed than by making the answer, "Because it was he, because it was I".
    FROM: On Friendship, (1580), Book, France
• Lytton Strachey (1)
  • IN: The Cupboard (1999) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: We are all cupboards, with obvious outsiders -- which may be either beautiful or ugly, simple or elaborate, interesting or amusing -- but with insides mysteriously the same -- the abodes of darkness, terror and skeletons.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• John Steinbeck (1)
  • IN: The Road Home (2007) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: How can we live, without our lives?
    FROM: The Grapes of Wrath, (1939), Novel, US