American writer Quote by Susan Sontag

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your…

— Bohumil Hrabal

Finding a title for a book is something that I work really hard at ... So, in Salt, I realized that the book was…

— Helen Frost

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

— Thomas Perry

Just as the light and weightless vegetation of saltpeter floats over the old walls of houses as soon as the owner gets careless, so…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

— Bernard Malamud

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful…

— J. E. Buckrose

“Like attention, praise and porn, salt is one of those instant gratifiers that are easy to get too much of and hard to get…

— Josh Ozersky

“Books, including those written by famous authors, may sit unread on forgotten shelves, attracting dust rather than readers’ attention.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

“People sometimes act as though owning books you haven't read constitutes a charade or pretense, but for me, there's a lovely mystery and pregnancy…

— Leah Price

Andy Anderson has written an autobiography in pictures, a life on the water. Salt is an eloquent modern paean to the strength and beauty…

— Guy De la Valdene

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

“The book borrower… proves himself to be an in venerate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his…

— Walter Benjamin