Begins Quote by John Updike

Roth Unbound is filled with intelligent readings and smart judgments. Because of the author's sympathy and sharp mind, it offers real insight into the…

— Colm Toibin

“Placidity and order and everything in its place, with a decorous and sanctioned violence going on underneath everything, like a heavy, brutal shoe tapping…

— Margaret Atwood

“Beneath the quiet equanimity, the simmering obsessions.”

— Neil Smith

“I have always lusted after a sepia-toned library with floor-to-ceiling bookshelves and a sliding ladder. I fantasie about Tennessee Williams' types of evenings involving…

— Amy Mowafi

“Dance on a white page to reveal your passionate perception of inner madness.”

— Debasish Mridha

“In less than an hour I have to hold class for a group of idiot freshmen. And, on a desk in the living room,…

— Richard Matheson

“…the neurotic torture of being seductive regularly—by the night: the more that perchance the struggle always is unconscious.”

— Mary MacLane

“Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I…

— Nicole Krauss

My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode…

— Hamish Bowles

“For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times. A man may have been born in…

— Amor Towles

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.

— Roger L'Estrange

“I inhale slowly, soaking it all in. I step forward and backward, my neck twisting and turning, memorizing every corner. I feel an instant…

— Corey M.P