Imagine the anticlimax of opening a novel you'd just got Dostoyevsky to sign and finding 'Keep smiling - Fyodor.'Howard Jacobson
The liveliest effusions of wit and humour are simply what the reader of a novel has a right to expect.Howard Jacobson
A novel is not a play. A novel takes one reader at a time into its confidence. It can be shockingly personal. Private, even.Howard Jacobson
Whatever happened to books? Suddenly everybody's talking about these 100-hour movies called 'Breaking Bad'. People are talking about TV the same way they used to talk about novels back in the 1980s. I like to think I hang out with some pretty smart people, but all they talk about is 'Breaking Bad.'Douglas Coupland
No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.Douglas Coupland
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?Salman Rushdie
Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.Salman Rushdie
