Books Quote by William Golding

Homer, Vergil, Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe, Proust - not exactly authors one expects to whiz through or take lightly, but like all works of genius,…

— Andre Aciman

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

— Aldous Huxley

“The Odyssey was written by Homer, or another Greek of the same name.”

— Oscar Wilde

I had always been an enthusiastic reader of stuff about ancient Greece. I would read Herodotus and Thucydides just for fun.

— Steven Pressfield

'The Odyssey' is the great tale, and I was really taken by 'The Iliad,' so I dig into those things, and when I was…

— Karl Marlantes

Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest,…

— William Allingham

“the surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definite, and concrete. The greatest writers—Homer, Dante, Shakespeare—are…

— Robert W. Bly

I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.

— Amish Tripathi

“Some books will remain famous but will be considered anonymous works, as for us the epic of Gilgamesh; others author's names will still be…

— Italo Calvino

“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find…

— Marilynne Robinson

I have so many favorite authors; I can't name just one.

— Gena Showalter

If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say…

— Vikram Seth