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."
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
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
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