Conception Quote by Evan Parker

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of…

— George Bernard Shaw

An exacting account of the processes by which things fall apart. The scope is breathtaking...the clarity and lyricism of the writing itself left me…

— Dennis Covington

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.

— John Cheever

The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings.…

— John Cheever

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.

— Yoko Ono

It's difficult for me to imagine any scene differently because I've read the book so many times. The book, as a whole, seems like…

— Mary J. Miller

Everybody's idea of a great book is different, of course. For me it's one that makes my jaw drop on every page, the writing…

— Carl Hiaasen

I think you get so wrapped up in the book you're currently writing, it's hard to think about anything else. But I know as…

— Meg Cabot

The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.

— Tim Ferriss

“The greatest book ever composed was marked at one point unconventional. Also it was marked difficult to read and comprehend, especially in its original…

— Marcus G Monroe

The book really comes to life in the rewriting.

— Philip Roth

I think that the book in some ways is the most interesting from our own present standpoint, particularly when we want to think about…

— Nicholas G. Carr