Anecdote Quote by Elif Batuman

“I was fascinated by strangers, wanted to know what food they ate and what dishes they ate it from, what movies they watched and…

— Donna Tartt

“We’re meant to read the lives of important people as if they never bothered with breakfast, lunch, or dinner, or took a coffee break,…

— Laura Shapiro

“Books were everywhere in their large apartment. Histories, biographies, novels, studies on Quebec antiques, poetry. Placed in orderly bookcases. Just about every table had…

— Louise Penny

“What can I do, I like Balzac better than Dickens, forgive me.”

— Franco Moretti

“Here are more lines from The Great Gatsby. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and…

— Sigrid Nunez

“He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any…

— George Eliot

“I learned from the age of two or three, that any room in our house, at any time of day, was there to read…

— Eudora Welty

“I forged more notes and my trips to the library became frequent. Reading grew into a passion. My first serious novel was Sinclair Lewis’s…

— Richard Wright

“The man had no portraits or photographs, but he had slowly surrounded himself with mementos of a fantastic past. Each little item, by the…

— William Ritter

“A month ago, I wouldn't have believed it, but now I knew better. This was Gatlin. Not the Gatlin I thought I knew, but…

— Kami Garcia

“And this man, who during three long decades had not once remembered that the world contains lilac bushes - and pansies, sandy garden paths,…

— Vasily Grossman

“I have an idea that Gatsby himself didn't believe it would come, and perhaps he no longer cared. If that was true he must…

— F Scott Fitzgerald