18th century Quote by Claire Tomalin

I read letters and journal entries by [Georgia] O'Keeffe (which were infinitely more useful than any critical analysis of her work).

— Liza Campbell

Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was America’s literary magazine. To our minds, it still is. It…

— Lorin Stein

Book reviewing dates only to the eighteenth century, when, for the first time, there were so many books being printed that magazines - they…

— Jill Lepore

In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.

— Terry Pratchett

I didn't know I was really a writer until I read it in the New York Times. And then I thought, "Oh my god,…

— Judy Blume

“She could get published in a sound journal that meant business and didn’t publish fly-by-nights. She was twenty-eight. It was time for her to…

— Eve Babitz

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.

— Joseph McCarthy

What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine.

— Hugh Hefner

I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a…

— Florence King

She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you…

— Gary Paulsen

“I looked into the literature on this," said Nightingale, "and it wasn't very helpful." "There's a literature about this?" "You'd be amazed, Constable, about…

— Ben Aaronovitch

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable…

— Laura Mullen