“I did not have to learn to love you: You were chosen for me. I knew that the first time I saw… — Marilyn Nelson Copy Share Image
Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
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
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
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
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
“I don't know much about him. He is a carver in our bishop's city, a days journey from here; he has a… — Hermann Hesse 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
“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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud. — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate. — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The fierce ambitions of Carver Dana Andrews, son of a Baptist preacher, might well have been imagined by Horatio Alger, Jr.-- or… — Marion Meade Copy Share Image
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were… — Christine Quinn 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
My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short… — Zadie Smith 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
“Four days before Cal Carver went into space, in a far-off sector of the galaxy, in a dirty alleyway behind something a… — Barry J. Hutchison Copy Share Image
From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim… — Greta Salpeter 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
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
Those who work standing ... carpenters, sawyers, carvers, blacksmiths, masons ... are liable to varicose veins ... [because] the strain on the… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
George Washington Carver said: 'No one has the right to come into this world and go out of it without leaving distinct… — Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf Copy Share Image
I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor 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
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