I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.
Peter Temple
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
William Temple
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the... →
Studs Terkel
I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.
Twyla Tharp
There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.
Paul Theroux
I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.
People who don't read books a lot are threatened by books.
I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble.
I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd not read books 2 or 3. I'd just read a... →
David Thewlis