Book Quote by Marisha Pessl

Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't point to…

— Jeff VanderMeer

Nabokov can be almost too delicate at times, but in 'Lolita,' he puts his aristocratic sensitivity to use in such a dark tale that…

— Hallgrimur Helgason

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of…

— Zadie Smith

The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my…

— Karen Thompson Walker

I love deliberately badly written books.

— Richard Prince

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

— Kate DiCamillo

I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I do believe this to be the over-arching philosophy behind most of the books I've fallen in love with over the years. The more…

— Marla Frazee

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters,…

— Anne Rice

“Books have been vastly important in my life - as both a reader and a writer. I've learned that the great gift of literature…

— Bob Smith

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

— Jen Lancaster

The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or whomever, are…

— Robert Greene