Basbanes makes you love books.

I have a hard time isolating what it is in myself that makes me so fascinated with the theme of identity, because I came from a normal upper middle-class family. And yet, as I look back at my books, the uses of power, issues of identity, they have - it's recurrent. It happens again and again.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each other in a unique way.

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.