David Hajdu
"The smaller people, the smaller voices, are lost to history. But they are important as counterpoint and frequently important in their own right."
The Going: A Poem
"The ceremony of innocence is drowned..."
Elizabeth Cox
"There is no right or wrong way — just a way of noticing the way things happen in the world that is natural and organic. Plot can come pretty easily out of this exercise."
Natatcha Estebanez
"The film is about fear of losing oneself. Profoundly, it's about holding, not assimilating, integrating but not assimilating. I think assimilation is one of the worst things...this country is obsessed with assimilation. When I think about you, I will think in Spanish, and if I were to think of you in English it will not feel the same."
The Orphan: A Poem
Mother, you are my dream scroll...
David Champagne
Bands definitely tend to get focused on "Oh, if we could just get signed to a major label." They don't realize that that's when your troubles begin.
Jim Crace
"What always has interested me is the way that books are different from the writers. When I write a book I always look for that moment where the book abandons me and starts to express a view of its own."
Corporations Possess; Public Access Is Torn: Télévision Vérité. Liebography.
Although it's tempting to disregard television as plebian entertainment, something I often do, the fact remains that there are near-limitless possibilities for challenging and fascinating television "programming," ...
James Ellroy
"I never specifically answer what's real and what's not in my books. I think that my vision is true to the moral thrust and the psychological thrust of history."
Nicholson Baker
"Part of the reason a worthless book is worth retaining is that its worthlessness means something."