Robert Sheckley
"A novel is often a longer process in handling self-doubt."
“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
Mary Shelley
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."
Susan Sherman
"That afternoon the muzhiki sent a delegation to deliver an ultimatum: five thousand rubles by morning or suffer a pogrom."
David Shields
"I would sit in front of the class and pretend to have answers to their questions about geometry, history, science, etc."
Viktor Shklovsky
"Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived."
Evie Shockley
"something is always burning, / london, paris, detroit, l.a., the neighbor- / hoods no one outside seems to see until / they're backlit by flames…"
Genres
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... 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
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More