Books Quote by Edmund White

Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's…

— Bret Easton Ellis

As a reader I feel included a lot in Julie Carr’s hard and beautiful book. I can pretty much hear its author speak—a whispering…

— Eileen Myles

“For many years, biographers and scholars, beginning with her great nephew James Austen-Leigh, presented her as a quiet, reserved, proper woman, but one has…

— bETH pATTILLO

I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.

— Lena Dunham

Sarah Phelps is such an incredibly detailed writer. She's famous for bringing literature to life, like Dickens and Agatha Christie.

— Sarah Greene

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

— Cornelia Funke

“I can relate to the novelist Carrie Brown...who described herself as being 'a promiscuous reader.' I'll give almost any book a chance to have…

— Nancy Pearl

Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James)

— Nora Barnacle

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.

— Nelson DeMille

One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.

— Barack Obama

I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can…

— George Saunders

The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or whomever, are…

— Robert Greene