Books Quote by John Turturro

Again and again, Primo Levi's work is described as indispensable, essential, necessary. None of those terms overstate the case, but they do prepare readers…

— Howard Jacobson

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

— Jeanne Calment

There are many critics whose work I greatly admire. Even though I diverge from T.J. Reed in several important ways, I've learned greatly from…

— Philip Kitcher

Primo Levi's - I mean, he's a very different kind of writer. He's a much more formal writer. He's a much more -almost detached.…

— Ann Goldstein

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels…

— Edward Albee

“As a guide I had only my own feelings for what is appealing or moving, and for many the guide was inevitably often at…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have…

— Iris Murdoch

I think Jack Thorne is an exceptional writer.

— Sarah Lancashire

If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with…

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

“For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes…

— Joe Fassler

“The best authors are both evocative AND precise. But if you prefer one over the other, who is to say what's best? Every book…

— Anonymous

I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important…

— Frederick Lenz