Authors

George Eliot

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."

T.S. Eliot

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."

Bret Easton Ellis

"Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here."

Ralph Ellison

"I knew that it was better to live out one’s own absurdity than to die for that of others."

James Ellroy

"I learn things late — and only the hard way."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Mathias Enard

An expert in Arabic and Persian, he has lived throughout the Middle East

Amy Ephron

"Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered."

Leslie Epstein

"'You aren't getting in,' said Pat. Peter, his sibling, said, 'Un-Americans not allowed.'"

Steve Erickson

"'You are surrounded by signs,' she said. 'Ignore none of them.'"

Steven Erikson

"I am a writer obsessed with layering my narrative, so there’s plenty to find for the reader even after the raw events of the story are well-known."