Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
It was stone carvers in ancient Rome, scribes in the Middle Ages, all the way through Gutenberg to the present day. That's… — Michael Bierut Copy Share Image
We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on. — Glenn Danzig Copy Share Image
I will try not to panic, to keep my standard of living modest and to work steadily, even shyly, in the spirit… — John Updike Copy Share Image
I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Carver's best book yet! FROM A CHANGELING STAR combines deft characterization and fascinating extrapolation into a complex, compulsively readable thriller. I wish… — Craig Shaw Gardner Copy Share Image
That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff.… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Raymond Carver had the quote that I loved about how he felt that a short story was the moment right before someone's… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
“As a panting Tracy Ferris scrambled into the life-pod, this thought was precisely what was running through her already agitated mind. From… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
I would be writing and trying to write like Joan Didion. Or if I was reading Raymond Carver. You know, strong stylists.… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
A parable: A man was examining the construction of a cathedral. He asked a stone mason what he was doing chipping the… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
“After moving his family from Yakima to Paradise, California, in 1958, he enrolled at Chico State College. There, he began an apprenticeship… — William L. Stull Copy Share Image
Jeff Carver is a hard sf writer who gets it right-his science and his people are equally convincing. NEPTUNE CROSSING combines his… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
I love fiction. I like reading short stories. Cupcakes, pop songs, Polaroids, and short stories. They all raise and answer questions in… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
Alex decided he’d had enough. He put down his knife. “All right,” he said. “You’ve made it pretty clear that you don’t… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
I'm interested in dismantling the distinction between masculine and feminine writing both because I think it's a false distinction and, I think,… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
When you write, you lay out a line of words. The line of words is a miner's pick, a wood carver's gouge,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain on the… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Island Records used what we built and tried to cash in on it which is so annoying. So it came time to… — Jess Margera Copy Share Image
The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest,… — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
