Essays Quote by Nicholson Baker

I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.

— Zadie Smith

“I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago. It was…

— James A. Michener

I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to…

— Roman Coppola

I had some very, very fond memories of the people I worked with and the authors I worked with - and I won't mention…

— John Hodgman

I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays…

— David Oshinsky

Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings.

— John Gimlette

I did projects on Champlain coming up the St. Lawrence River and on Henry Hudson cast adrift in the bay that now bears his…

— Margaret MacMillan

“Like Tom Sawyer whitewashing the fence, authors trick readers into doing most of the imaginative work.”

— Jonathan Gottschall

I'm struck by how impressively John Elliott assimilated new work on early modern England and colonial America, as well as keeping abreast with his…

— Linda Colley

It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale of American…

— Michael Korda

“I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me.”

— John Green

John Steinbeck is one of the most under-discussed and under-written-about of all American writers. He is way up there and should stand on a…

— Harry Belafonte