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“He turned away and I turned to him in vivid heat to look on the sun-dried world. The groves and towers were gone. The…

— Jeanette Winterson

“he was carried aloft, for the moment, on one of those great waves of hope from which he was usually plunged deep into the…

— Émile Zola

“I used to capture the vastness and the immensity of the world and confine it to the limited pages of the parchment.”

— Hark Herald Sarmiento

“After resting in the cool, shadowy interior for a while, with feelings of both gratitude and distaste, he set off once more, and as…

— W.G. Sebald

“Alchemy is the name of this temple of images. Here a towering wall of video flashes glamorous vamps and alien androgynes over the heads…

— Karen D. Best

“So he went on stringing together these and other absurdities, all in the style of those his books had taught him, imitating their language…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“...he had known that the endless space below him that stretched out like a maw was exactly that: a mouth the size of the…

— China Miéville

“...that Figure so impressd it self upon my Mind that I have been in a manner walking towards it all my Life. Then I…

— Peter Ackroyd

“the translator says that a sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question…

— Rachel Cusk

“In that pallid and sullen shadow in which he crawled, whenever he turned his head and endeavoured to raise his eyes, he saw, with…

— Victor Hugo

“He taught me that language was rubbery, plastic. It wasn't, as I thought, something you just use, but something you can play with. Words…

— Mal Peet

“He wanted, in short, a work of art both for what it was in itself and for what it allowed him to bestow on…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans