Beth Gutcheon Quotes

#1. I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.

Beth Gutcheon

#2. I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of six children.

Beth Gutcheon

#3. Damned no matter what you do. Why do people think knowing secrets is fun?

Beth Gutcheon

#4. I wanted this day, the perfect buttery sun like peach ice cream, the speed, the satin leather of the car seat, the fair. Forbidden fruit, a day like no other.

Beth Gutcheon

#5. You're never too old to keep failing your children, are you? Why weren't we told this was a life sentence?

Beth Gutcheon

#6. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.

Beth Gutcheon

#7. I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in the preponderance, women. I am one of them; I like the books they like.

Beth Gutcheon