I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

What I love is how pissed off Jane Eyre is. She's in a rage for the whole novel and the payoff is she gets to marry this blind guy who's toasted his wife in the attic." -Angela Argo "Blue Angel

You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they employ - than to what they mean. This notion of dialogue as a pure expression of character that...transcends the specifics of time and place may be partly why the conversations in the works of writers such as Austen and Bronte often sound fresh and astonishingly contemporary.

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

I work really long days and I work seven day weeks.