Beautiful Quote by Dennis Lehane

I first read 'Lord of the Flies' as a teenager. I remember feeling disillusioned afterwards, but not for a second did I think to…

— Rutger Bregman

“A great book does not have to be a literary masterpiece with complicated sentences and words no one has heard of. It has to…

— Amanda Mackey

“His novel or book of poems, decent, adequate, arises not from an exercise of style or will, as the poor unfortunate believes, but as…

— Roberto Bolaño

“THE BALLAD OF READING GOAL: The vilest deeds, like poison weeds,      Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in…

— Emma Goldman

When I wrote 'Lord of the Flies' - I had no idea it would even get published.

— William Golding

“I'm an alien in my own world, a writer without words, a musician without a piano, a magician without a wand. I am fooled…

— Nema Al-Araby

For I often please myself with the fancy, now that I may have saved from oblivion the only striking passage in a whole volume,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I've loved all my books, but I will admit that 'The Man from Stone Creek' holds a very special place in my heart.

— Linda Lael Miller

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“That's why I've just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff – what you might call riff-raff. There's not a book here,…

— Walter de la Mare

“I thought Lord of the Flies was one of the great rip-offs of our time. Complete steal from A High Wind In Jamaica. He…

— Truman Capote

“The novelist is condemned to wander all his life. Homeless and blind like Oedipus he wanders until death. And so let us protect the…

— Roman Payne