Quotes from Joanna Scott

As entertainment, fiction may offer momentary relief from the stresses of reality.

But I think it's useful to note that at any particular point in our lives our minds are full not just of our own memories but of the experiences of characters from the books we've been reading. That's if we are lucky to have the education and leisure to read at all. And the curiosity

In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.