„Well, Aimee Semple McPherson has written a book. And were you to call it a little peach, you would not be so much as scratching its surface. It is the story of her life, and it is called In the Service of the King, which title is perhaps a bit dangerously suggestive of a romantic novel. It may be that this autobiography is set down in sincerity, frankness and simple effort. It may be, too, that the Statue of Liberty is situated in Lake Ontario.“

— Dorothy Parker

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„After Olympia Press, in Paris, published the book, an American critic suggested that Lolita was the record of my love affair with the romantic novel. The substitution "English language" for "romantic novel" would make this elegant formula more correct.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.“
— Confucius
„Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?“
— Mary Oliver
„This much is certain: you can have anything in life except a wife to call you "her man." And till now all your life was based on that hope.“
— Cesare Pavese
„If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.“
— Ernest Hemingway