Book Quote by Craig Shaw Gardner

I love piecing together intricate thoughts that people find compulsively readable and they can't put down.

— John Grisham

In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial…

— Stephen King

Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul’s research is extraordinary; his writing…

— Debby Applegate

Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics. Civility reigns,…

— Jaimy Gordon

Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for…

— Christopher Castellani

“I have a hunch the world is darker than I could ever imagine and there is less reason for hope than I am able…

— Brian K. Friesen

My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He…

— Rainn Wilson

As a journalist, I would talk to writers, directors, creative people, and discover that for an awful lot of them, the moment they became…

— Neil Gaiman

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was…

— Gary Kemp

“Shed the pains of yesterday and seize the plans of tomorrow.”

— Catherine Crumber

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But…

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

— Franklin P. Adams