“If you're a history buff, you know about J. Edgar Hoover. He was likely the most powerful man in the US. If you start reading about him, the books contradict each other constantly. I was often left with very little sense of the man personally. I had a sense of what he did and didn't do and what people disagreed about whether he did this or didn't do this or that, but I was like, "Why? Why was he doing all of this?" That was my big question.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenLittlesBookBigsReadingLeftPowerfulHe ManMost PowerfulBig QuestionsHooverPowerful ManJ Edgar Hoover Author:Dustin Lance Black
“I don't really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I've read them, so most of the books I've read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.” BookLeftInterestLosesRoomsMinutesHotelAirplaneHotel Rooms Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.” WorldWantWritingMeanBookLeftLanguageEngagementScar Author:Aleksandar Hemon