Book Quote by Jennifer Egan

I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes up when…

— Paul Beatty

I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf…

— Lily King

I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything has made…

— David Duchovny

The Color Purple really floored me. That book was just incredible because I loved the language. The biggest deal of that book was that…

— Matt de la Pena

When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.

— Ruskin Bond

I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern media that…

— Patrick Rothfuss

When you fall in love with a book, something especially interesting and exciting is happening because of the way language works on us as…

— Ali Smith

One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.

— Ali Liebegott

I loved 'Goodbye to Language.'

— Richard Linklater

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

— Thomas Mars

I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the…

— Marilynne Robinson