Festivals Quote by Amitava Kumar

I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do, and he was an…

— Kevin Barry

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

— Joseph Heller

Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years.

— Barack Obama

His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think he [Vaclav Havel] probably would have liked to have written more plays. I think he missed being a playwright.I think he talked…

— Judy Woodruff

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

— Bill Gates

A guy named Peter Rabe wrote a batch of books for Gold Medal in the '50s, and he was absolutely the single largest influence…

— Donald E. Westlake

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

— Rita Dove

I'd love to meet Shakespeare. I've done so much research on him and there are so many unanswered questions.

— Tom Bateman

“The Letters to a young poet illustrate perfectly the kindliness, the complexity, and at the same time the impersonality and remoteness of Rilke’s manner…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and…

— Norman MacCaig

Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work.

— Ai Weiwei