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Lewis Strauss is one of my best friends.

— Herbert Hoover

I didn't think much about Marsden Hartley until very recently, but Gertrude Stein found him to be the best American painter in Europe at…

— Robert Indiana

One of my favorite writers is Michel de Montaigne. My wife gave me a beautiful 17th-century edition of Montaigne's essays translated by John Florio.…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Ralph Waldo Emerson was the first author or transcendentalist that I connected with and resonated with. And I found that when I was in…

— Jenna Ortega

“What a great treasure can be hidden in a small, selected library! A company of the wisest and the most deserving people from all…

— Leo Tolstoy

“When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like…

— Tahir Shah

“I've traveled the world twice over, Met the famous; saints and sinners, Poets and artists, kings and queens, Old stars and hopeful beginners, I've…

— Janice James

We read everything - from the Unabomber to Camille Paglia to Martin Luther King Jr. - and I really fell in love with the…

— Steven Rinella

I've learned so much from my professors and have been fortunate to have had so many good ones, including Frederick and Steven Barthelme, Edward…

— Mary J. Miller

“Nordic writers to include social critiques in their fiction. It was one of the qualities I had admired since first reading Sjöwall”

— Stieg Larsson

In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being…

— Charles Horton Cooley

I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony…

— Ian Rankin