Rose Macaulay Quotes
It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.
Citations
Macaulay, Rose. Told by an Idiot. Boni and Liveright, 1924, p. 84.
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Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay, DBE was an English writer, most noted for her award-winning novel The Towers of Trebizond, about a small Anglo-Catholic group crossing Turkey by camel. The story is seen as a spiritual autobiography, reflecting her own changing and conflicting beliefs. Macaulay's novels were partly influenced by Virginia Woolf; she also wrote biographies and travelogues.