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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive. — Tea Obreht Copy Share Image
If [Bill Shawn] liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more than just… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Another benefit of going to Cornell is that 90 percent of your friends are doctors. — Ato Essandoh Copy Share Image
I've been combing through the Wolverine archives and advertisements from the sixties and seventies. I'm looking to take inspiration from designs of the past… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
The Schwarzman Scholars is a program that was designed with Tsinghua University. They asked me to do something in honor of their 100th anniversary. — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
The exciting thing about getting a label together and doing press for it is that hopefully some 15-year-old girl who is the only feminist… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales. — Howard Stern Copy Share Image
“The library is now located and maintained at the Institute of Making which is part of University College London. You could rebuild our” — Mark Miodownik Copy Share Image
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image