“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
John Barth
"Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene."
Roland Barthes
"Every exploration is an appropriation."
Ian Baucom
"The Zong and its cargo of four hundred forty slaves sailed from the coast of Africa on September 6, 1781."
Charles Baudelaire
"A lightning flash... then night! Fleeting beauty By whose glance I was suddenly reborn, Will I see you no more before eternity?"
Robert Bausch
"That’s why he couldn’t make an offer for it: its ‘audience’ was ‘problematic.’”
Alison Bechdel
"I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death."
Genres
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More