21st century Quote by Jane Smiley

“The horse is a mirror to your soul...and sometimes you might not like what you see in the mirror. ~Buck Brannaman”

— Catherine Madera

“And I couldn't take my eyes off Pete. He ate dinner like he always did, in three or four huge, whoofing bites, before heading…

— Patton Oswalt

“Tom looked more and more like a rabbi. As is the way of men of character in provincial towns, he tended to become a…

— Frank O'Connor

Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this…

— Roy Blount, Jr

I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays…

— David Oshinsky

This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of anecdote and…

— Scott McClanahan

“I tried to imagine myself as an old lady, grey and wrinkled, with my life behind me. And suddenly I knew what I wanted.…

— Helen Douglas

“Our Ideal Citizen—I picture him first and foremost as being busier than a bird-dog, not wasting a lot of good time in day-dreaming or…

— Sinclair Lewis

“this early Swann in whom I can distinguish the charming mistakes of my childhood, and who, incidentally, is less like his successor than he…

— Marcel Proust

What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into the image…

— Kehinde Wiley

I've liked Pete Gurney's writing always.

— Matthew Broderick

“Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without…

— Mark Twain