Books Quote by Anna Quindlen

For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned…

— Iain Sinclair

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But…

— Jane Smiley

London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters…

— Peter Ackroyd

In London, you can visit, in a way, every part of the globe within the span of a few streets. It's truly amazing and,…

— Ainsley Harriott

London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through…

— Virginia Woolf

What I love about London is you can go out of your door and turn left or right, and you could eat at every…

— Karren Brady

“London is full of short stories, long stories, epics, farces, sit-coms, soaps and squibs, walking round hand in hand.”

— Martin Amis

I believe if you can have an open dialogue about anything, whether it's a book or a movie or TV show, it's this door…

— Kelly Marie Tran

“[Soho] is all things to all men, catering comprehensively for those needs which money can buy. You see it as you wish. An agreeable…

— P.D. James

“London is a friend whom I can leave knowing without doubt that she will be the same to me when I return, to-morrow or…

— Stella Benson

“The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square.”

— Anna Quindlen

“London seemed like a house with five thousand rooms, all different; the kick was to work out how they connected, and eventually to walk…

— Hanif Kureishi