“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
Ted Chiang
"What I most often wind up exploring is the relationship between the world as it is and the world as we perceive it to be."
Kate Chopin
"There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water."
Jill Ciment
"Like most writers I know who teach, I hope against hope it doesn't affect my writing. However, I think my writing deeply affects my teaching."
Joshua Clover
"Everything in a poem is form; the content is the reader's pleasure."
Jean-Louis Cohen
"This profession has a sort of moral and ethical horizon that is no better than the others."
Genres
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
