Frank Quote by Alan Moore

“It was clear he had remained unflustered by recent public events, at the age he had reached perhaps disillusioned with the commonplaces of life;…

— Anthony Powell

“Its emotional character … is probably mostly indescribable except as a sort of double bind in which any/all of the alternatives we associate with…

— David Foster Wallace

I would have started writing a lot earlier if I hadn't been [Arthur Miller's daughter].

— Rebecca Miller

“The subject of a piece of writing has not suffered the tension and anxiety endured by the subject of the "Eichmann experiment" (as it…

— Janet Malcolm

It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.”

— Allan Lokos

Ben Miller's writing has left a trail of clear and perfect images lasered permanently in my mind. His imagination is astounding in its breadth…

— Hannah Tinti

“I wonder whether certain dreadful events, of the sort this picture is full of, are not so incalculably rich in the possibilities of moral…

— James Agee

The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the…

— Brian Greene

“The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and…

— William Dean Howells

“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed…

— Samuel Butler

Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity…

— Fredric Jameson