Considered Quote by Simon Rich

I started reading 'The Onion' when I was 13 years old.

— Megan Ganz

When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations.…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.

— John Burnside

I always felt weird. I don't feel particularly likeable.

— Lou Barlow

One thing I think about a lot is that one of my favorite pieces of narrative art as a child was 'Calvin and Hobbes.'…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all

— Johnny Depp

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do.

— Anonymous

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

— Paulo Coelho

But what I realized when I was looking back at them was that no matter how different they are, they're still coming from me,…

— Molly Antopol

I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.

— Gemma Files

There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank…

— Frank Rich

I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.

— Dani Shapiro