Edmond Jabès
"The hand opens to the word, opens to distance."
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Authors
Jennifer Richard Jacobson
"Elephants can sense danger. They're able to detect an approaching tsunami or earthquake before it hits."
E.L. James
“What is it about elevators?”
Henry James
"The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life."
Yang Jisheng
"I call this book Tombstone. It is a tombstone for my [foster] father who died of hunger in 1959, for the 36 million Chinese who also died of hunger."
Adam Johnson
"The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw."
Books
Authors
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Jon Wiener
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Jayne Cortez
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Genres
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More