Anglers Quote by Stephen Leacock

Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night Journal to…

— Elizabeth Crook

Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what,…

— Marcel Proust

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the…

— Marcel Proust

The writer should always serve as his own angleworm —and the sharper the barb with which he fishes himself out of blackness, the better.

— John Hawkes

The Collector [John Fowles book] does such a good job of capturing the mindset of a capturer, and also that's become a banal trope…

— Emma Donoghue

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

— Anne Bronte

“The art teacher's scarlet book was called Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille. 'As the title suggests,' Mr Dunwoody saw the book'd caught…

— David Mitchell

All great authors are seers.

— George Henry Lewes

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is…

— Christopher Morley

“Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered before he…

— Jonathan Lethem

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“In reality, every reader, while he is reading, is the reader of his own self. The writer’s work is merely a kind of optical…

— Marcel Proust