I loved literary science fiction. In fact, as a kid, when…

I read a lot of sci-fi when I was younger. Loved it from the literary point of view.

— Bonnie Hammer

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.

— Richard Savage

“There's a feeling, Evan's read about in books, when two separate souls collide that were never meant to be apart, but are. When nothing…

— Angela Carlie

I wanted to be a novelist from a very early age - 11 or 12 - but I don't think I ever thought I…

— Pat Barker

“It is said that an eighteenth-century bishop who read Jonathan Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travels threw the book into the fire, indignantly declaring that he…

— Terry Eagleton

“Giving up is the naysayer within us proclaiming that heroes are the stuff of fiction and the thought of us ever being one falls…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know,…

— Conor Oberst

I was less angry at [Carl] Armstrong, though I was angry at the people who came to his trial: Dan Ellsberg, who ordinarily I…

— Nat Hentoff

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in…

— Karan Mahajan

I loved this smart, funny, big-hearted novel. As hilarious and wise as early Philip Roth, The Mathematician's Shiva will delight and move you.

— Steven Strogatz

This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used…

— Quentin S. Crisp

Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they…

— Barbara Tuchman

There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for…

— Plutarch

“The King’s blond hair, bound by a silver coronet, fell down to his shoulders to frame a white face, narrow eyes, a beak of…

— Paul Doherty

To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that…

— Philip Roth