Books Quote by Michael Dirda

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

— Dorothy Parker

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

— Tim LaHaye

I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

— Hannah Kent

Other than fiction and poetry I tend to read history.

— Stephen Dobyns

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

— Amos Oz

BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

— Rob Brezsny

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest…

— Robert Caro

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the…

— Robert Hall

“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death-- fascinating, cruel,…

— Cara Swann

A book brings its own history to the reader.

— Alberto Manguel

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I…

— Daniel Handler