
“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"

"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.

"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."

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

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

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

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

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

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