“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
Roger Luckhurst
"To insist on a reading which reads through texts to a ground that lies beyond their own reach is an act of engagement."
Tom Lutz
"Comparisons are odorous, as Dogberry says, but comparisons, however implicitly made, are the sturdy vein of book talk."
Genres
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Jon Wiener
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Mike Davis
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Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More