Victoria Connelly Quotes & Sayings

It's a great day when you meet a new writer, isn't it? It's like an introduction to a best friend you didn't know existed just hours before. — Victoria Connelly

Darcy staring handsomely out from the shelves. Well, Colin Firth, really. 'The face that launched a thousand bookmarks, — Victoria Connelly

Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not just for entertaining us, although that would be enough. — Victoria Connelly

Sarah often thought it funny how she would think of the characters as if they were real people who had really lived, occupying this very world with the same strength of mind and passion as their creator. — Victoria Connelly

Why couldn't love be rational like everything else? What right did it have to bulldoze through your reasoning and leave you spinning? — Victoria Connelly

Stories survive not just because of empathetic characters that we can still identify with but because the author has something to say to us and they have the ability to communicate that to the reader in a clear and often amusing way. Jane Austen knows how to hook a reader with her endearing and often infuriating characters but she also keeps us hooked by her wit, her observations, and her unique use of language. Lots of other writers had books published at the same time as Jane Austen and yet they've been lost to us. Austen has survived because she has a unique voice. But the themes she explores are also important. — Victoria Connelly

Very few modern men dressed well, she had to admit. — Victoria Connelly

Is only a novel ... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language. — Victoria Connelly

Why is life a constant disappointment?'
'Because we read fiction,' Mia said, and Shelley nodded, knowing it was true. — Victoria Connelly

That's the only problem with novels,' Mia said. 'They give readers such high hopes that the real world can often be a bit of a letdown. — Victoria Connelly

She needed a break from me. Well, real ones anyway. Fictional men were fine: they knew their place. You could just pick up a book, flick through to the right page, take your fill of your favorite hero and then return them to the shelf. Job done. — Victoria Connelly

Hold on to the ones you love,' Grandpa Joe told him now. 'Hold on to them tightly and tell them that you love them at every opportunity because you just don't know when you'll be parted from them. — Victoria Connelly

Did Jane Austen ruin lives by giving people false expectations about love? Were her heroes just too good to be true? Could a real man of flesh and blood ever hope to live up to such paragons? And were books with happy endings cruel? Did they give their readers a warped view of the world and what they could expect from it? — Victoria Connelly

So many lifetimes can be lead within the covers of books, — Victoria Connelly

Every person has to make their own decisions in life. It's virtually impossible to learn from somebody else's mistakes; there are too many variables. — Victoria Connelly

I think loss isolates a person. Everybody is far too nervous to ask you how you feel, in case you have a breakdown in front of them. It's much easier not to say anything and hope the pain goes away quickly and quietly. — Victoria Connelly

Never give up. If you have a dream - no.matter what that dream is, whether it be to become a great actress ir to open your very own sweet shop- never stop.dreaming it, because if you do, life becomes one long nightmare — Victoria Connelly

I wonder what it is about a certain novel that ticks the boxes for a reader. I mean, for me, a story can have the most fascinating plot in the world, but if the narrator's voice is dull, then the plot counts for nothing. For me, authorial charm is everything. — Victoria Connelly

There was no Delete button to help you erase an awkward scene. You couldn't hit Backspace to get rid of all the rubbishy bits. You had to live with the decisions you made. — Victoria Connelly

It wasn't just that feeling of coming home - of being intrinsically attached to what was familiar - but more a case of being so in love with a part of the world that everything else paled in comparison. — Victoria Connelly

a lady's imagination is very rapid — Victoria Connelly

But life doesn't always turn out the way you think it will,' Robyn said, 'and that can be rather wonderful. — Victoria Connelly

She couldn't help thinking that something was wrong with a person had more shoes than books in their home. — Victoria Connelly