Absorbing Quote by Heather Gudenkauf

Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive…

— William Kent Krueger

If you can believe it, I wrote all of 'Awakened' around one chapter. That was the idea for the whole thing, so I figured…

— James Murray

In Eden who sleeps happiest? The serpent.

— Derek Walcott

I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a…

— William Shakespeare

'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I wanted a…

— Per Petterson

As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It's a comedy thriller, brilliantly written and it's full of twists and turns at every page. When I was reading it I was desperate…

— Louise Jameson

I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels…

— David Brin

We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop…

— C. S. Lewis

Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god, my laments…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping.

— Clive James

I think everybody came into it with the understanding that they would go through an experience that is literally not by the book, that…

— Oren Moverman