The Quiet American in the Bookshop

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

"One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain at second hand. Even if we have the happy chance to fall in love, it is because we have been conditioned by what we have read, and if I had never known love at all, perhaps it was because my father's library had not contained the right books." - Graham Greene, Travels with My Aunt

 

Here We Are in the Bookshop

Here We Are by Graham Swift

"The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page." - Graham Swift