By the Book Quotes

“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All of us absorb other people's words, feeling like we have gotten to know the authors personally in our own ways, even if just a tiny bit. True, we may also harbor jealousy or resentment, disbelief or disappointment. We may wish we had written those words ourselves or berate ourselves for knowing we never could or sigh with relief that we didn't, but thank goodness someone else has.”
― Pamela Paul, By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review

“Tiger, Tiger, by Margaux Fragoso.”
― Pamela Paul, By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review

“Jincy Willett, Sam Lipsyte, Flannery O’Connor, and George Saunders. Oh, and I love Paul Rudnick in The New Yorker.”
― Pamela Paul, By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review

“James Joyce’s Ulysses”
― Pamela Paul, By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review

“Tillie Olsen. James Joyce. Robert Stone. I must have read Updike’s Rabbit, Run five times and Bellow’s Herzog”
― Pamela Paul, By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review

“The Alexandria Quartet”
― Pamela Paul, By the Book: Writers on Literature and the Literary Life from The New York Times Book Review