Betsie Ann

“Reflect that you could have written the book so much better yourself, if only you had the time and the inclination for the task; and that the literate won't be listening, if you're speaking on air, or doing more than glance at your review, if it appears in print; and go right ahead! There will be no reprisals. If the author is young and struggling, he won't dare to expose your pretensions; and if he is well established he won't think it worth while to do so.”
― Georgette Heyer

“Mira thought she had come home to her countrymen and to her remaining family, but in fact, she had come home to a country torn apart by civil war and into a city about to become the center of the most devastating war the Jews had ever known.”
― Betsie A. Gebbia, The Work of Thy Hand A Novel of Early Christianity

“The first object of a novelist, is to tell a tale. If he has no story to tell, what is he there for? Possibly he has something to say which is worth saying, but he should say it in another form.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“I think the hardest thing of all is to be wise in our dealings with the people we love,’ he said. ‘I know I have found it so.”
― Georgette Heyer, An Infamous Army