"What's any artist, but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?"
"As a hybrid genre, confessional fiction becomes a way of writing about a dangerous subject while protecting oneself as a woman and as a writer."
"If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own."
"The cracked wood perfect for the seamed and ancient face, heavy with all of the miseries of the world. But it was the hat that informed the man."
"The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words."
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
