“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Authors
Megan Abbott
"That notion of feeling imprisoned by circumstances or one’s own desires and drives is so fundamental to noir."
Lisa Abend
"The bartender in Cuenca set the plate before us and we beheld a huge pig mask."
Ibrahim N. Abusharif
"The memory of colonialism in the Middle East has certainly not been erased."
André Aciman
"This is when it finally dawned on me that one couldn't write like Gogol or Stendhal or Proust in today's world."
Aravind Adiga
"Readers are looking for books that will explore India's transformation and rise and not condescend."
Ferran Adria
"It's not about being the first, it's about conceptualizing."
Albert Adria
"The brother of Ferran, Albert Adria is a chef in his own right."
Aeschylus
“It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.”
Demosthenes Agrafiotis
A visual and spatial artist who combines poetry, painting, photography and technology.
Saladin Ahmed
"Fantasy nerd pretty much from day one."
Genres
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More