Authors

E.F. Benson

"An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light."

Kate Bernheimer

"Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen."

Doris Betts

"If you are going to be underestimated by people who speak more rapidly, the temptation is to speak slowly and strategically and outwit them."

Sven Birkerts

“I read novels to indulge in a concentrated and directed inner activity that parallels -- and thereby tunes up, accentuates -- my own inner life. ”

Tom Bissell

"Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self."