"This was on my high school reading list. I loved every bit of it. I have always wanted to read it again. If I am on a desert island, I will have plenty of time."

Though I plan to stay off desert islands, and live to be 100, this soon-to-be published book of poetry contains my favorite lines: ‘….It’s sweetness/ that turns leaving sour, joy that makes dying hard.

"This book is so funny, like gasping and crying funny, and I feel like if I was stuck on a desert island I would want to spend the time I wasn't sobbing in despair laughing hysterically."

"Dawn Powell’s diaries would place me in NYC no matter how remote this desert island is. Images, ideas, perfectly parceled out, brief, heartbreaking observations, a kind of urbane wisdom, even if you don’t like her novels."

"Though I plan to stay off desert islands, and live to be 100, this soon-to-be published book of poetry contains my favorite lines: "….It’s sweetness/ that turns leaving sour, joy that makes dying hard.”"

"Because I just directed the pilot of the boldly reimagined Anne for Netflix and CBC. And because if I was alone on a desert island, Anne would be like a plucky, chatty, imaginary friend. Who wouldn’t shut up."

"This novel deserves its place on my desert island for how subtle it is, how moving. There is a lightness to its artfulness that deserves reading and rereading. I adore this novel about vision, and film, and women."

"The harmony of music with the simplistic style of telling that story, as a framework for it, and then the acting… It’s like bringing Broadway — true Broadway — to the desert. Picking up a little naturalism from the desert. I believed Carl Anderson; believed every word of him, every frown, every inflection of his eyebrow. I love musicals. Always have. I think you have to tell a full story; it’s like asking someone, “Do you like black and white films?” or “Do you love 3D?” Music creates that third dimension."

"I travel a lot and this is the perfect scenic song, while you're looking out the window of an aeroplane. I remember listening to it while driving through the desert to Coachella. it carries somthing about it; it's just beautiful."