About Quote by Alafair Burke

“I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return,…

— Kate Morton

“Looking out over the mezzanine to the endless shelves below, the girl couldn’t help but smile. She’d grown up inside books. No matter how…

— Jay Kristoff

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell…

— Charles Guggenheim

“Literature, so far as it is Literature, is an ‘apocalypse of Nature,’ a revealing of the ‘open secret.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave…

— Laurence Housman

I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a lot of…

— F. Paul Wilson

Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness…

— Jenny Diski

At a very young age, I was influenced enormously by Julio Cortazar or Carlos Fuentes. In that literature, there's always an exploration of different…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'MotherFatherSon' was just an extraordinary read and I wanted to be a part of it.

— Sarah Lancashire

“My heart beat violently. My forehead was bathed in a cold perspiration. I asked myself for the first time what it was that I…

— Amelia B. Edwards

“From childhood, she had regarded books as the emblems of a secret brotherhood.”

— Milan Kundera

Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to…

— Natalie Merchant