“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
Robert Silverberg
"Utopias are boring. Dystopias on the other hand, are interesting."
Shel Silverstein
“Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy.”
Georges Simenon
"She was stretching her legs without paying any attention to what was happening and I noticed her high pointed heels."
Mona Simpson
"We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories."
Michael Sims
"If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire."
Genres
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Mike Davis
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Percival Everett
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
Angilee Shah
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Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Television
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More