Bad Quote by Jeff Giles

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

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

— Charles Dickens

“I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from…

— Neil Gaiman

He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a…

— Simon Callow

I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a…

— Paul Auster

I haven't the stature to critique one of our literature's great novels, Tobias; and I'm not one of those who believe The Adventures of…

— Norman Lock

“Do you have any idea how hard a story is to write? My brain is jumpy, and my heart doesn't know where to live.…

— Jenny Hubbard

“Good stories are living texts, and when policies, laws, and social fads change, a good story remains evidence of not only what once was,…

— Nevien Shaabneh

“So, Strand looked at me, and he said, 'You should write about all this someday.' And I said, 'You mean about all the terrible…

— Mark Leyner

“Every life has a story and every story needs a writer.”

— Emily-Jane Hills Orford

Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers.

— David Adams Richards

“He read with intensity and was passionately in love with every character, every turn of plot or twist of language. He made the characters…

— Sarah Ockler