Arches Quote by John Hodgman

“Borges is particularly stimulating to a man who works in the cinema, because the unusual thing about his writing is that it is like…

— Federico Fellini

“The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and stop for…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges was lamenting a variety of Orientalism that was used to measure the alleged authenticity of Argentine and Latin American writers in…

— Adam Morris

Jorge Luis Borges wrote a poem when he was in his 80s about one day writing the book that would justify him. This was…

— Theodora Goss

The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male - pummeled…

— Samuel R. Delany

“If he was not personally loud, however, he was deep, and during these closing days of the Roman May he knew a complacency that…

— Henry James

His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person,…

— Max Born

“...what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it.”

— Bruce Meyer

“They were soft-centered, emotional beings wrapped in a terrified carapace, that even though they might appear rational and collected on paper, so focused that…

— Jean Korelitz

“He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by actually being…

— Colin Bateman

The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge.

— Gore Vidal

Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn't write about that which he loves…

— Roger Avary