Books Quote by James Howe

“That was the wonderful thing about historical novels, one met so many famous people. It was like reading a very old copy of Hello!…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“As usual, it struck me that letters were the only really satisfactory form of literature. They give one the facts so amazingly, don't they?…

— Giles Lytton Strachey

“Hank Nearly was an avid reader. He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat, with a book taken from the library, copied all the…

— Joshua Ferris

“Literature is a writer's secret life recorded in symbols.”

— Will Lavender

“History was my favourite subject at school and in my spare time I read historical novels voraciously from Heidi to the Scarlet Pimpernel and…

— Sara Sheridan

“A great book does not have to be a literary masterpiece with complicated sentences and words no one has heard of. It has to…

— Amanda Mackey

G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the 20th century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else.

— Dale Ahlquist

“Though I have been busy, perhaps overbusy, all my life, it seems to me now that I have accomplished little that matters, that the…

— Wallace Stegner

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lives loss…

— Tahereh Mafi

“Two things can keep the common reader going, argument or story. (Both are always involved, however subtly, in good fiction.)”

— John Gardner

I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs…

— David Mitchell