“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
Stanley Cavell
"I don't believe that human existence is just one damn problem after another."
Daniel Cavicchi
"I am still shocked when I go into major bookstores and find plenty of books about musical performers but none about music listeners."
Michael Chabon
“I write to entertain. Period.”
Raymond Chandler
"A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled."
Lisa Chaney
"I think I became a biographer because I'm obsessively fascinated by people and how they work."
John Cheever
"All literary men are Red Sox fans — to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life."
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Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More