Books Quote by John Boyne

“The Complete Novels of Jack London”

— Jack London

Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.

— David Amram

“(Jack London)“He was an adventurer and a man of action as few writers have ever been . . . the excellence of his short…

— George Orwell

“As with Jack, the discriminating milieu of loneliness moved Hugh to raise the stakes of solitude, not from a wish to spare himself the…

— Edward Cline

I think Jack Thorne is an exceptional writer.

— Sarah Lancashire

“Some very eminent critics writing in the decades immediately after the novel's publication felt that Eliot failed to maintain sufficient critical distance in her…

— Rebecca Mead

“With a perversity of judgement, which must be attributed to his not having by Nature a very strong head, the Graces, the Spirit, the…

— Jane Austen

“McCandless read and reread The Call of the Wild, White Fang, “To Build a Fire,” “An Odyssey of the North,” “The Wit of Porportuk.”…

— Jon Krakauer

“Well, this is a story about books.” “About books?” “About accursed books, about the man who wrote them, about a character who broke out…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Around Jack (Kerouac) there circulated a palpable aura of fame and death.”

— Gary Snyder

“The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in…

— Thomas C. Foster

“I knew the boys in my first novel, which I was writing at that time, weren't as raw as they could be, weren't real.…

— Ward Jesmyn