Going Quote by David Sheff

I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not…

— Mac Barnett

I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but my academic…

— Oliver Harris

He had never been interested in stories at any age, and had never quite understood the basic concept. He'd never read a work of…

— Terry Pratchett

“Read together, these two completed narratives constitute the saga of an exemplary twentieth-century American unsentimental education, in which the generosity of Billy Burroughs’s spirit…

— William S. Burroughs Jr

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

— William S. Burroughs

I think my dad knew that I had this performance streak, so he would often put on movies and he says I really studied…

— Lily Gladstone

“There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-kid’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream…

— Anonymous

Style and entertainment tastes change, but the core emotions of being a kid - which, not coincidentally, are the core foundations of any good…

— Mark Waid

Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8-year-old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures;…

— Anthony Doerr

Kids' literature now is dystopian, you know.

— John Cameron Mitchell

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be…

— Laura Miller

I think that maybe growing up and being dyslexic early on, the visual quality of cookbooks specifically was something very enticing to me.

— Zac Posen