“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
Padgett Powell
"Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?"
D.A. Powell
"in a protracted stillness, I saw that heron I didn’t wish to disturb / was clearly a white sack caught in the redbud’s limbs"
Christopher Priest
"All prose is a form of deception."
Cherie Priest
"While the mask-impaired side vision permitted it, Briar watched the door behind her shrink as she rose."
Marcel Proust
"Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."
Genres
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More