If you have to deal with our friends at ICE, Immigration…

I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.

— Robert Coover

“My conception of a novel is that it ought to be a personal struggle, a direct and total engagement with the author's story of…

— Jonathan Franzen

“I've only read one other book of his, Danube, from which, among his many impeccable sentences, one wrapped its octopus arms around my frenetically…

— Rabih Alameddine

I heard a story the other night about an editor who visited the Iowa Workshop and, when asked what sorts of books she published,…

— Matthew Specktor

When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd…

— Zadie Smith

The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when companies hire…

— Barack Obama

Before ICE, we had Immigration and Naturalization Services, but it wasn't until about 1999 that we chose to criminalize immigration at all. And then,…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We need to create a fair immigration process that ensures the wellbeing of all families and prevents the wrong people from coming to this…

— Tina Smith

“Writers do not write what they want, they write what they can. When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately…

— Zadie Smith

I do hang out with girls, I do relax. But I am a hermit sometimes and get a bit too introverted, too 'Jean-Paul Sartre'…

— Josh Peck

The president receives an inspector general's report that the Office of Personnel Management could be hacked into; they had antiquated firewalls; 23 million files…

— Jeb Bush

Sometimes you have to go and do something different. I'll just disappear and write a couple of books, and then go back and do…

— Vic Reeves

“Don’t to that! Don’t just disappear! If you’re mad at me, then hit me or something-just don’t think that I don’t want to stay…

— Alexandra Bracken

Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish…

— Tobe Hooper

I didn't want to be one of these superstars that just come and then just disappear.

— Sheamus