Beckett Quote by David Duchovny

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just…

— Jessye Norman

I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

— Saul Williams

I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I was 14,…

— Jay McInerney

I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.

— Johnny Flynn

I read my books out loud to myself because of the demands of the story and demands of language.

— Kate DiCamillo

When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as…

— Ali Smith

At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United…

— Kate Beckinsale

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

— Don DeLillo

We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I was always influenced by language.

— Helen Dunmore

I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to…

— Hari Kunzru