Books Quote by Michael Dirda

Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -…

— Michael Dirda

“Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven, Tom Wolfe…

— Edward Abbey

[Kurt] Vonnegut was a writer whose great gift was that he always seemed to be talking directly to you. He wasn't writing, he wasn't…

— Michael Dirda

Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work

— Charles J. Shields

I've read some of Kurt Vonnegut letters from when he was young. He was a prisoner of war, and even when he was in…

— Susan Sarandon

There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about.

— Mark Kurlansky

I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut.

— Louis Sachar

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard

Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a…

— Nell Freudenberger

Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the…

— Michael Swanwick

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

— John Lancaster Spalding