Books Quote by Glenn Meade

“They were...no ordinary group, gathering together to kill an evening, to seek refuge from critical husbands and demanding children while idly discussing their new…

— Gloria Goldreich

I'd obviously never heard of the group, but my ignorance in literary matters is to blame for that (every book in the world is…

— Roberto Bolano

“The Memorabilia, the abbey's small patrimony of knowledge out of the past, had been walled up in underground vaults to protect the priceless writings…

— Walter M. Miller Jr

“But I shall transmit their names far down the ages. These names alone will remain in the future, divested of their objects. Who, it…

— Jean Genet

“Who was this mysterious founding member of an order that would grow in such prominence in history and legend? Why was this last knight…

— James Rollins

“It is well enough known, that in the early ages of Christianity, many silly and fraudulent persons composed fictitious narratives of the life and…

— Robert Taylor

“In this little booklet, which had belonged to a maternal great-uncle of ... mine, who spent some time working as an office clerk in…

— W.G. Sebald

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

— Anatole Broyard

What was it that obliged Jerome to write his book, Concerning Illustrious Men? It was the common reproach of old cast upon Christians, 'That…

— Cotton Mather

“Theological meaning is thus written into the detail of John’s meticulous literary composition.”

— Richard Bauckham

The basic idea is that there is this group that, over the centuries, has learned to control reincarnation. John's character stumbles into that realization,…

— Glen Morgan

“There is every reason to believe that the Gospel of John was spread and well known in Babylonia, if not separately then in the…

— Peter Schäfer