Caitlin Moran Book Quotations

As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

If anyone was going to write a song or, you know, or a book, or make a film about a girl like me, it was going to have to be a girl like me, and quite literally, me.

I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two stage plays.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

If you eat enough books, you start pooping out words.