Books Quote by Daniel Pecaut

“Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.”

— Deana J. Driver

“Clevinger is a very bright guy, a Harvard man, who knows everything about literature except how to enjoy it.”

— Joseph Heller

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard

“There’s nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn’t in their books. It’s better to read a good…

— John Irving

The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most…

— Zadie Smith

“one of the most pleasant qualities of a reader who has lived among books all his life is that he does not attempt always…

— Maurice Francis Egan

There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of…

— Robert Gottlieb

“In a sense, we can tell a lot about anyone by looking at what books, if any, he reads, at what books are on…

— James V. Schall

“You know what a publisher is? He’s a failed writer whose father was rich enough that he’s able to appropriate other people’s talents.”

— Joël Dicker

“No matter how poor he was at communicating with people, with books he could engage in deep, quiet dialogue.”

— Shion Miura

“A great writer is the friend and benefactor of his readers.”

— Macaulay

“He was an average-looking, hard working fellow who was more comfortable reading about people in books than socializing with them.”

— Cindy Thomson