3 Quotes & Sayings By Jonathan Raban

Jonathan Raban is the author of nine novels, including The Crossing Place, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and The Gum Thief, which won the Hawthornden Prize. He has written for The Guardian, Granta, and Bookforum. He lives in London with his wife and two children.

‎Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for...
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‎Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in books was one of ease and freedom, worldly wisdom, glitter, dash and style. Jonathan Raban
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Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't. Jonathan Raban