Books Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“I later spent a year studying Finnegans Wake with Norman O. Brown, an exercise in masturbatory obscurantism that Bryan would never have undertaken—and he…

— William Finnegan

Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of…

— Willa Cather

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but…

— Jane Birkin

Jekyll and Hyde, in particular, is such an important novel in terms of suspense and setting a perfect scene for crime

— Alanna Knight

“Maybe the midnight disease was like that, too. After a while you lost the ability to distinguish between your fictional and actual words; you…

— Michael Chabon

“In your modesty you seem to consider that writers are of different blood and bone from yourselves; that they know more of Mrs Brown…

— Virginia Woolf

I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read…

— Megan Abbott

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to…

— Anonymous

“Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in the stall…

— Bernard Schaffer

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

— Louis L'Amour

“Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad at real…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream…

— Barbara Pym