Matt Strawbrich

“When they dreamed of turning iron and metal into gold, they called it alchemy. The much more far-fetched dream of turning bound sheafs of plain paper into fortunes, they call publishing.”
― Matthew Pearl, The Last Bookaneer

“Before I could do any sleuthing, though, I still had the question of Uncle Louis.”
― Christy Fifield, Murder Buys a T-shirt

“I was looking for something else in books. I could not really say what, but I think I can say why: a notion started in my own brain was probably wrong, but an answer read in a work of literature would be right. That was my conviction at nineteen, and only in later years would I come to trust myself over a book.”
― Matthew Pearl, The Last Bookaneer

“These writers take the essence of every person around them, turn them into books and stories without permission or even a simple thank-you, and want all the credit and glory for themselves.”
― Matthew Pearl, The Last Bookaneer