“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
Geoffrey Galt Harpham
"The thing is an externalized version of identity, absorbing vague longings, momentary reflections, and fugitive impulses."
Mette Ivie Harrison
"Be classy, if you must say anything at all. I think silence is very classy."
M. John Harrison
"Dividing literature into genres is limiting, a marketing device that got out of hand."
Tupelo Hassman
"I am a heaven and hell flower."
Christian Hawkey
"Fräulein, there is the stars’ ceaseless drilling. I close my eyes."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Easy reading is damn hard writing."
Books
Genres
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Charles Yu
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Angilee Shah
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Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More