Lee Israel > Quotes

“I was going on trial as people were still making a great deal of money from the fruits of my labor.”
― Lee Israel, Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger

“I had a brother with whom I had never had much in common.”
― Lee Israel

“When one cause of worry exits my skull it is replaced immediately by another. They meet shoulder to shoulder, one entering, the other exiting the cave leading to my tympanic membrane.”
― Lee Israel

“In New York City, subways are built like catacombs; there is almost never a simple crossover route, but rather a subterranean walk, directed by arrows, that takes on up the stairs, then down other stairs, around and down and up again. And it is always damp no matter the season.”
― Lee Israel, Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger