When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
Julian Barnes
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one... →
Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.
The ways in which a book, once read, stays (and changes) in the reader's mind are unpredictable.
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not... →
James M. Barrie
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
Isaac Barrow
Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the tablets of stone.
Kevin Barry
Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell and deadly serious.
It was quite risky to open the book with one of my quieter stories; I'm kind of trying, I think, to lure readers into a false sense of security... →
Whenever I do a book, I'm usually guided by a question or something that I'm trying to tease out.
Lynda Barry