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“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the…

— Don DeLillo

“His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn't control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps…

— Ian Caldwell

“Words that had looked so strong on the page, which ran through his mind like music, now shriveled in the air around him.”

— Peter Murphy

“He began to read at haphazard. He entered upon each system with a little thrill of excitement, expecting to find in each some guide…

— W. Somerset Maugham

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

— Sarah Addison Allen

“So he went on stringing together these and other absurdities, all in the style of those his books had taught him, imitating their language…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“He was back at the point of departure, at the place that filled writers with dread and excitement, for this was where they must…

— Felix J. Palma

“He didn't much like reading novels - he preferred history or philosophy - or poetry, although he could read only a little poetry at…

— Claire Messud

“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling. His voice…

— Lauren Groff

“his education had had the curious effect of making things that he read and wrote more real to him than things he saw.”

— C.S. Lewis

He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading…

— James Salter