Genius Quote by Jeffrey Tambor

Lincoln is a genius of language and a brilliant writer who deserves to be seen as part of the canon of great writers in…

— Fred Kaplan

The beginning [of Lincoln in the Bardo] is strange, and I did a lot of work calibrating that so that a reader with a…

— George Saunders

Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut up and…

— George Saunders

For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.

— Zadie Smith

[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both backwards and…

— George Saunders

As the writer of this book [Lincoln in the Bardo], what I loved was the feeling of having so many surprises come at the…

— George Saunders

What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed…

— Zadie Smith

“Lincoln characterized Stephen Douglas's argument as "a specious and fantastic arrangement of words, by which a man can prove a horse chestnut to be…

— Abraham Lincoln

A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on.

— Fred Kaplan

“Lincoln had a masterful grasp of great subjects. He was able to look at events from all sides, so as to appreciate how they…

— Henry Ketcham

“On Lincoln: "A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.”

— James Russell Lowell

For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who…

— Barack Obama