T. C. Boyle
I read in the way that I breathe, as a necessity of life. More
The Corrections
Winner of the National Book Award in 2001 and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2002. More
Tom Robbins
I write to twine ideas and images into big subversive pretzels of life, death, and goofiness—on the chance that, like the Trickster figure in tribal myths, they might help keep the world lively and give it the flexibility to endure. More
Michele A’Court
I read because I want to live more than one life. Books take us out of ourselves into a whole other world. More
Lionel Shriver
Why I write: To find out what I think. More
Matt Haig
It sounds ridiculous, but reading saved my life. More
Michael Chabon
The first writer that I really fell in love with was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in particular his Sherlock Holmes stories, and the first story that I ever wrote was a Sherlock Holmes story. More
Bradley Trevor Greive
If not for My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell, I wouldn’t be a writer . . . mind you, I probably wouldn’t have had five treatments for rabies either. More
Frank Warren
The book that set a course. At The Book Thing in Baltimore I saw a man persistently searching over the used-book shelves. More
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Classic, irreverent novel that helped spark the modern movement of environmental activism. More