Bathroom Quote by Rudy Wiebe

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

— Benjamin Disraeli

John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not…

— Edward Abbey

I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.

— Maggie Smith

One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.

— Conor Oberst

“[The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn’t it?”

— Morris L. West

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.

— Mike Greenberg

I am going to lose my fanbase and say that Jonathan Franzen's 'Crossroads' is very good. One of my favourite writers is Elena Ferrante…

— Torrey Peters

The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me.

— Earle Birney

Justin Hermann is one of the best new voices in short fiction-deep and entertaining as hell, with many funny lines, unexpected turns of events,…

— Josip Novakovich

What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?

— Paul Auster

Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with.

— Cornelia Parker

I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no ordinary fellow,…

— Norman Mailer