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
“It was a story by Edgar Allan Poe" "I didn't know the Teletubbies had first names ...” — Mike A. Lancaster Copy Share Image
I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies. — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
“Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.” — Nicholas Trandahl 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
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
I've named a couple things after Edgar Allan Poe: the cat, and my garden upstate, where I only planted black flowers and… — Hilarie Burton 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
I always thought it would be really, really cool to play Edgar Allan Poe, because when I was a kid, he was… — Ezra Miller 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 actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
“I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to… — Daniel Stashower Copy Share Image
“RAVEN: THE GOLD-BUG is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, originally published in 1843. Poe won a short story contest and… — Jennifer Chambliss Bertman 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
“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
“Aside from being famous, what do Beethoven, Mark Rothko, Hemingway, Francis Ford Coppola, Van Gogh, Alvin Ailey, Robin Williams, Sylvia Plath, Balzac,… — B.A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by… — Quentin Crisp 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
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
“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
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th… — Jules de Goncourt 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
“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
“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
“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
“The truth is, everyone likes to look down on someone. If your favorites are all avant-garde writers who throw in Sanskrit and… — Brent weeks 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
“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
“Quote from "The Dish Keepers of Honest House" …TO TWIST THE COLD is easy when its only water you want. Tapping of… — Helene Hinson Staley 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
“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
“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
“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
“It was all Mrs. Waddington could do to refrain from hurling a bust of Edgar Allan Poe at her head.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
