'One of the best presents anyone can give you is the name of a writer whose books they believe will be "you" - and they are. Someone you would almost certainly never have found for yourself. They expand your horizons, they enrich you, they lead you forward, they chime with truths you already know and confirm them, they share new truths of their own with you.'
Susan Hill, Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading, p.247.
