“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.” ― Edgar Allan Poe” — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate! — John Green Copy Share Image
I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I didn’t even know a heart could beat so loudly, and it reminds me of an Edgar Allan Poe story” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce. — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“.. "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry." -Edgar Allan Poe” — Nykki Mills Copy Share Image
“Edgar Allan Poe called it “the imp of the perverse,” that willful, self-destructive voice within that impels us to do things or… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
“of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1841 classic “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” may have been history’s first behavioral profiler.” — John E. Douglas Copy Share Image
Edgar Allan Poe is amazing because he was so dark. He's from Baltimore and so cynical that you can feel it when… — Goldlink Copy Share Image
“EDGAR ALLAN POE was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, the second of three children born to actors David Poe Jr.… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Bibi: Mi papá me dijo que esta vez no me va a apoyar con David Hasselhoff porque me estoy haciendo daño y… — Mario Cantú Toscano Copy Share Image
“To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Yes, it would nice for this fifty year period, this cradle of all vampire short stories in the English language, to include… — Andrew Barger Copy Share Image
I belong to the Lovecraft Society, which meets at the University. They do things like follow in Lovecraft's footsteps, just like he… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“Wasn't he the one who sliced off his ear and mailed it to his girlfriend?" "Van Gogh," said Varen, in a monotone… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Arms are around me, hands in my hair, lips moving across my cheek, over my neck, and I’m thinking about poetry, about… — Julie Cross Copy Share Image
“Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own… — Andrew Barger Copy Share Image
“Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The Rough Beast snorted. “You don’t get it at all, buddy. It’s not about wrestling. It’s about stories. We’re storytellers.” Caperton studied… — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“There's no question about it. The arts are an extremely high-risk situation. People are willing to take these extraordinary chances to become… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Weird fiction is a strange beast, an eclectic genre (or subgenre). It originated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century through… — Helen Marshall Copy Share Image
“You hear a lot about the benefits of insanity or whatever - like, Dr. Karen Singh had once told me this Edgar… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Sippy had described them as England's premier warts, and it looked to me as if he might be about right. Professor Pringle… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“My dear reader, have you seen the bizarre contraption that the inhabitants of this futuristic age carry in their pockets? It is… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Suffice it to say I was compelled to create this group in order to find everyone who is, let's say, borrowing liberally… — Sarah Schmelling Copy Share Image
“To the Greeks this problem of the conditions of poetic production, and the places occupied by either spontaneity or self-consciousness in any… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“On a spring day in 1988…a Massachusetts man who collected books about local history was rummaging through a bin in a New… — Allison Hoover Bartlett Copy Share Image
I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
“The poet Edgar Allan Poe described the false awakening phenomenon long before Carl Jung was born. He wrote, ‘All that we see… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
Epilepsy is a disease in the shadows. Patients are often reluctant to admit their condition - even to close family, friends or… — Lynda Resnick Copy Share Image
“And so it is with old HPL: the very model of an 18th century hipster, born decades too late to be one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
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