Jacques Derrida
“I believe in the value of the book, which keeps something irreplaceable, and in the necessity of fighting to secure its respect.”
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Authors
Mark Dery
"...intellectual freedom is unimaginable without the right to think the unthinkable."
René Descartes
"I think, therefore I am."
Patrick DeWitt
"My very center was beginning to expand, as it always did before violence, a toppled pot of black ink covering the frame of my mind."
Helen DeWitt
"Liberace talked on and on and on."
Philip K. Dick
"If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others."
Joan Didion
"I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
Genres
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... 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