Geoffrey G. O'Brien
"Balloons. Let’s say repetition is very / bright. Muddy river. Dead dog. The / terrible terrible. "
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Authors
Edna O'Brien
"When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious."
Joyce Carol Oates
"My self is all to me. I don't have any need of you."
Barack Obama
"A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it."
Books
Genres
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Jayne Cortez
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Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More