A Life in Words

I believe this is a very important book for people who want to know what it means to be a writer. -Barry Gifford Nabokov once said 'I divide literature into two categories, the books I wish I had written, and the books I have written.' In the former category I would put books by Kurt Vonnegut, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, and Paul Auster. --Umberto Eco (in the Paris Review)