John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always…

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

— Hugh Leonard

John Hawkes is amazing. I really want to meet that man; he's so good. Him and Ben Foster, and I'm a big fan of…

— Rory Culkin

An extraordinary writer…It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have read it, I would…

— Stephen R. Donaldson

With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant.…

— Skip Horack

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

— Charles Lamb

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

— Christopher K. Krebs

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

— Kevin Ansbro

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

— Andrew Lang

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

— Karen Thompson Walker

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

— Lydia Lunch

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

— Aesop Rock

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer