Authors

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."

Terry Bisson

"There are enough writers already. Wait for some of us to die."

Mary Clearman Blew

"I look back on that time and think how heartbreakingly young my mother and father were in 1944."

Harold Bloom

"I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles Dickens."

Judy Blume

“Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it.”

Judy Blundell

"When a family breaks you don't hear the crack of the breaking. You don't hear a sound."