Books Quote by Annie Dillard

As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore…

— Tim Cahill

“In the summer, when the days were hot and your writing was good at night, you knew you could find solace in the calm…

— Joseph Kutil

I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train,…

— Dermot Healy

Any writer likes to be near the area which is the location of his work.

— Ngugi wa Thiong'o

I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays…

— David Oshinsky

William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,…

— Alice Munro

The best American writers have come from the hinterlands -- Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Hemingway, Faulkner, Wolfe, Steinbeck. Most of them never…

— Edward Abbey

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or England or…

— Joseph O'Neill

A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence…

— Louis Auchincloss

I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will Look Like…

— Laura van den Berg

I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a…

— Mark Helprin