“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
Ted Chiang
"What I most often wind up exploring is the relationship between the world as it is and the world as we perceive it to be."
Kate Chopin
"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water."
Jill Ciment
"Like most writers I know who teach, I hope against hope it doesn't affect my writing. However, I think my writing deeply affects my teaching."
Joshua Clover
"Everything in a poem is form; the content is the reader's pleasure."
Jean-Louis Cohen
"This profession has a sort of moral and ethical horizon that is no better than the others."
Henri Cole
"There has to be a commitment to emotional truth, and there has to be a little concerto of consonants and vowels."
Genres
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... 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