“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Authors
Georges Perec
"Question your tea spoons."
Marjorie Perloff
"No one, after all, 'owns' poetry, no one has a 'license' to control its reception, which is, in any case, determined not by ownership but by use."
Tom Perrotta
"He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood."
Dale Peterson
"Reason generates the list of possibilities. Emotion chooses from that list."
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Books
Genres
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
Charles Yu
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Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Angilee Shah
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SF
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More