America Quote by William Carlos Williams

When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe.

— Dario Argento

“I can see prose has taken an unfortunate turn toward utility in the past century,” he said with obvious regret. “I’m afraid Poe and…

— D. Nathan Hilliard

After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific…

— Jules de Goncourt

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“The difficulty with Poe is not figuring out which of his stories rise to the level required of this collection, but rather which of…

— Andrew Barger

The literary world is so full of pretension, and there's such an enormous gap between how seriously poets take themselves and how widely they're…

— Billy Collins

I think quite a misguided literary culture has grown up in the 20th century that says a book has to have a seriousness of…

— Nick Hornby

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this…

— John Cusack

My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern…

— Matthew Specktor

Thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost…

— Nelson Algren

“Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there…

— Andrew Barger

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

— John Updike