Authors

Janet Malcolm

"This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother."

Paul Mandelbaum

"So many people in Los Angeles seem to get what they want. Is this how they start?"

Sarah Manguso

"Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self."

Thomas Mann

"In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius."

Sara Marcus

"I happen to believe that hand puppets are the key to the coming revolution."

Greil Marcus

"Every time Elvis sings, he makes a bargain with the devil — just like Captain Ahab in Moby Dick!"

Ben Marcus

"A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail."

Javier Marias

"One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness."