books

"His book has the force of a mob-protest; an outcry from anonymous throats. The wheel turns and turns and it does not matter, one hardly notices that the captain of the company, killed on page 159, is …"

"Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready-made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified. The lawyer has at his touch th…"

"From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books."

"I find that the whiter my hair becomes the more ready people are to believe what I say."

"We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant but which, carefully attended to, can supply a kind of “sense” of what is going on. This “sense” is …"

"The competitive nation-state system, with all its capacity for good and evil, is spreading in the Third World and is transforming that world."

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is perfect in the same way that The Great Gatsby is perfect. Take a pencil and read these books, looking for something that doesn't sound right, something you'd want to …"

"The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now."

"Texts at the German Projekt Gutenberg"

"I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere."

"... an initial underscore already conveys strong feelings of magicalness to a C programmer."

"Some people argue that Masti is not a novelist, and that he is only a short story writer. But there is no evidence that those critics have read Masti's novels. If Masti is not a novelist, neither are …"

"You would think that the obvious irreligious objection would come to almost anyone’s mind when reading a religious tome or holy book. What if you don’t believe the holy book’s presuppositions and narr…"

"J. M. Coetzee at The New York Review of Books"

"Analects of Confucius - full text in Chinese and English at the Chinese Text Project"

"A is for audition sense, knowing what to prepare for auditions and finding your niche; B is for business sense, submitting through Back Stage, reading Ross Reports, allocating funds every week for mat…"

"Originally I was content to just simply accept the money, that was offered when people had adapted my comic books into films. Eventually I decided to refuse to accept any of the money for the films, a…"

"I think I have a sense of how things need to sound, how to pull an audience in with tone, timing, and pacing. That affects a lot of my writing, too, being hyper aware of how an audience might read som…"

"New York Review of Books"

"Who now reads novels as a guide to life and love? Everyone wants to star in his or her own movie."