‘Evans’s nonfiction marries that faith in the value of subjective experience to a fierce interrogatory intellect; the result is a fascinating overview not only of a writer’s evolution but of the shifts in our understanding of art’
The Guardian

‘l Want to Talk to You is an intimate and moving meditation on the mysteries of writing and the pleasures of reading. Elegant in tone and finely wrought in form, it is a deeply insightful, and also profoundly enjoyable, collection’
Ekow Eshun

‘I just so enjoyed it, it’s absolutely fantastic. Evans writes so beautifully about everything, and every piece feels beautifully sewn together and complete, there is a depth and integrity and profundity to her writing, as well as an exploration of the complexity of everything that she is exploring. Inspirational‘
Bernardine Evaristo

‘A glorious gallimaufry of a book…Her writing is witty and seductive…This was always going to be a book that grabs you by the lapels and insists on you listening but all the same, you do emerge impressed and better informed – and also kind of windswept and happy’
Financial Times

‘A lot of books seek to explain and answer our questions about life, about those around us and the events – public or private – that can shape or influence our outlooks. In I Want to Talk to You, Diana Evans doesn’t try to do any of those things, and the result is a truly insightful, conversational and unique glimpse into life from her perspective – a perspective that is luminously questioning, always intelligent and unafraid of confronting the impact others can have on us. It’s a book I know I’ll return to again and again, and that I’d suggest everyone read. Absolutely brilliant’
Ore Agbaje-Williams

‘This book is a celebration of a career that has been anything but ordinary and an intellectual mind forever evolving. A blueprint for all of us straddling between fiction and journalism, who want to create meaningful, transcendent work’
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

‘I Want to Talk to You is a pleasure and an invigoration’
The Observer