René Descartes
"I think, therefore I am."
“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
Patrick DeWitt
"My very center was beginning to expand, as it always did before violence, a toppled pot of black ink covering the frame of my mind."
Helen DeWitt
"Liberace talked on and on and on."
Philip K. Dick
"If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others."
Joan Didion
"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
Jeff Dietrich
"Here in Los Angeles anyone without an automobile is de facto a second-class citizen."
Authors
Angilee Shah
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Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Genres
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... 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