Books Quote by Peter Baynham

I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and…

— Anthony Browne

My first book, Fast Forward, was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism…

— Lauren Greenfield

“I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew was mentioned,…

— Ian McEwan

It's incredible how London-centric the theatre world is. Certain actors won't travel away from London anymore for work; practitioners often aren't taken seriously enough…

— Marianne Elliott

It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a…

— Jonathan Coe

London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters…

— Peter Ackroyd

“Films are for everyone, collective, generous, with children cheering when the cavalry arrives. And they're even better on TV: two can watch and comment.…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to…

— Jon McGregor

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

— Mohsin Hamid

I think the British audience might be more open-minded with some of my imagery and weird choices.

— Adam Lambert

“I missed the currency of ideas. In London we had been part of a wide circle of solicitors’ families, and social occasions had been…

— Tracy Chevalier

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

— Jackie Collins