5 Quotes & Sayings By Cathleen Schine

Cathleen Schine is the author of the highly acclaimed, critically acclaimed, and best-selling novel, The Spider's Web. She is also the author of The Collection, The Coincidence Club, Dead Reckoning, and The Fifth Victim. Her other novels include A Third Victim, Black Widow, and The Leather Diary. Her nonfiction books include Seriously Funny: Lessons in Life from Nobody's Perfect (co-authored with Elaine Viets), the New York Times bestselling memoir of her years as an actress on Broadway Read more

Cathleen's first novel, Spinning Into Butter was named one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Novels for young adults. Her other works include two plays for children: "The Magician's Secret" and "The Story of Mimer." She has been a columnist for "Vogue" magazine, a regular contributor to "Self," "Redbook," and "Woman's Day," and a columnist for "Self." She lives in New York City with her husband.

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If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing? Cathleen Schine
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But Fin would always be a bit of a romantic, at least when it came to books. Cathleen Schine
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All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight. Cathleen Schine
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'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong. Cathleen Schine