Denis Johnson
"English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows."
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Authors
Kij Johnson
“Poetry is a terrifying mix of artistic rigor and honesty, but then, that's what I have been striving for in my fiction, so maybe it won't be so bad."
Edward P. Jones
"We are all worthy of one another."
Gail Jones
"A simple image on the blackboard snagged at her feelings and Ellie had loved it because it failed, because there was no mirror and no symmetry."
Stephen Graham Jones
"In an age when we so need that indeterminacy, it allows us room for our lives to mean something, it leaves gaps in the walls of reality."
Authors
Mike Davis
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Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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Television
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