
Mathias Enard
An expert in Arabic and Persian, he has lived throughout the Middle East

An expert in Arabic and Persian, he has lived throughout the Middle East

"Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered."

"'You aren't getting in,' said Pat. Peter, his sibling, said, 'Un-Americans not allowed.'"

"'You are surrounded by signs,' she said. 'Ignore none of them.'"

"I am a writer obsessed with layering my narrative, so there’s plenty to find for the reader even after the raw events of the story are well-known."

John Ernest is the author of Chaotic Justice: Rethinking African American Literary History.

"I have never been contained except I made the prison."

"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."

Jacob Eyferth is the author of How China Works and Eating Rice from Bamboo Roots.

"I began writing – became sane enough to write – at the age of forty-two."

"A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward eating its own boundaries."

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"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More

"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More

"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More