21st century Quote by Lev Grossman

“I am reading Ian Rankins book Doors Open and am enjoying his dark Edinburgh narrative will rate soon once I have read it. I…

— IAN RANKIN

I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've…

— Alexandra Fuller

“The Uncommon Reader, a novella by Alan Bennett”

— Will Schwalbe

My grandmother had a couple of strange books published by the Woolfs. I didn't know her - she was dead by the time I…

— Harry Enfield

William Trevor is an author I admire; his stories are subtle and powerful, and beautifully written.

— Kim Edwards

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

— Leighton Meester

My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

— Kevin McCloud

“When I was a kid, I just read and read. We were lucky enough to have gone to England and had a whole bunch…

— Franny Billingsley

I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody…

— Neil Gaiman

“Ever since the days when such formidable mediocrities as Galsworthy, Dreiser, Tagore, Maxim Gorky, Romain Rolland and Thomas Mann were being accepted as geniuses,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

From my point of view, 'Stranger in a Strange Land' isn't just a science fiction masterpiece; it also happens to be one of my…

— Bonnie Hammer