Laurie Graham Quotes

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.

Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures.

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'

I like reading... French, Russian classics - Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Flaubert. I also like Hemingway, Virginia Woolf.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

I love reading. I'm fortunate enough to have signed books by Faulkner, Steinbeck, Thomas Pynchon.

Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice.

I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.'

It's called 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' by Dave Eggers. It is absolutely everything the title implies. It's the greatest book I've ever.

'Lady Chatterley's Lover' is a novel that constitutes a milestone of English literature.

I quite liked Dostoyevsky when I was younger.

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

'Catch-22''s admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.

I defy anyone to finish Halldor Laxness's 'Independent People' without wetting the pages with tears.

I've always liked authors such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury.

Tarjei Vesaas has written the best Norwegian novel ever, 'The Birds' - it is absolutely wonderful: the prose is so simple and so subtle, and the story is so moving that it would have been counted amongst the great classics from the last century if it had been written in one of the major languages.

I still love Carson McCullers and Raymond Carver and Toni Morrison and James Baldwin.

I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.

Proust is a huge author for me.

When I read 'The Master', I felt that I had read a true classic. It's so rare nowadays that you have that feeling: it was a privilege to read it.

I've always loved Jane Austen's writing.

Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.