"I think nearly everything a writer writes mirrors his or her life, right down through the heart to the very soul."
"Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene."
"Every exploration is an appropriation."
"The Zong and its cargo of four hundred forty slaves sailed from the coast of Africa on September 6, 1781."
"A lightning flash... then night! Fleeting beauty By whose glance I was suddenly reborn, Will I see you no more before eternity?"
"That’s why he couldn’t make an offer for it: its ‘audience’ was ‘problematic.’”
"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
"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
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
