"Literary style is never more important to me than on a desert island, but more, the drawings, the correlations, the wit and color of this book would sustain me forever."

"I've always looked at people such as Steve McQueen for influence. His clothes, his sense of style, the way he looked in pictures, the way he was as a personality."

"In Walter Tevis’s novel Roeg found material absolutely suited to his hallucinatory, prophetic style. Mutilated on first release, eternally underrated, this is one of the great films of the seventies."

"Geoff Dyer put me on to this book. Dillard has the most captivating style; wandering and interrogating the natural world and our relation to it with skillful and delicate prose."

"I've always looked at people such as Steve McQueen for influence. His clothes, his sense of style, the way he looked in pictures, the way he was as a personality."