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Briar Greyson, in the bedroom, with the letter opener.
[Allen] Ginsberg totally helped that out. He was the best sales person. He was the most pop. They are still shocking and relevant, especially [William] Burroughs.
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David Copperfield.
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Kerrick the weed.
Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
Frank Zhang: lumbering klutz, child of Mars, part-time pachyderm.
Reading sparks writing.
Has the mathematical abilities of a Clydesdale.
Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in the tradition of Joolz Denby and Pam Ayres and, like them, her work is beautifully layered and contains bittersweet depths.
Roderick Lewis had a professional career, but he molested young girls. Zy
The most enviable genius in literary history is the guy who invented alphabet soup: nobody knows who he is.
All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.
military historian Richard Holmes.
Authors and artists are still afraid of breaking away as far as [William Burroughs] did ... And he did it in the 50s!
So who's on drugs here? ... HE looks as if he's on drugs.
I hate you, Edgar. I hate you with all my heart.
I had read and admired Ballard and Burroughs, and I thought of them as very powerful effect pedals. You get to a certain place in the story and you just step on the Ballard.
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
Captain Phasma. Remember me?" He moved his weapon slightly. "Here's my blaster, ya still wanna inspect it?" Phasma held on to her dignity. "Yes, I remember you. FN-2187." Finn shook his head curtly. "Not anymore. My name is Finn. A real name for a real person. And I'm in charge now.
We didn't ever want 'Tarzan' to feel like he was just a man. We didn't want him to stand up straight or wave good-bye. We wanted to make sure he always had that piece of gorilla in him, that he always had an animal attitude about him.
There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them. And then there is the writer, this writer-person, who is a much finer person than I. Much more orderly, much more meaningful. Worthier, than I [am].
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
meinstein n. My son, the genius.
Mason McCarthy cut a hard, forbidding figure. It was like he'd been built for destruction. Or something far more pleasurable.
Danger, the spur of all great minds.
I had been a lifelong Alan Turing obsessive. Among incredibly nerdy teenagers, without a lot of friends, Alan Turing was always this luminary figure we'd all look up to.
Reilly Brown is a master of balancing action, humor, and extreme violence, and his character designs for some of the alien races and technology that we encounter is just amazing.
Esther Duflo, a leading randomista. 'Sometimes
Who the shit is Otis?
If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.
Stuart Davises he
There's a lot of letters in Ladanian Tomlinson
I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.
His office was on the third floor of the Humanities & Social Sciences Building, just down the hall from the interview room. On the office door was a Peanuts cartoon of Lucy in the psychiatrist's booth with the little DOCTOR is IN sign. Professor Mitchell, a man on the cutting edge of humor.
Poor Arthur, you're not really cut out for this life, are you?" "You call this life?" "You're beginning to sound like Marvin." "Marvin's the clearest thinker I know.
All of William S. Burroughs friends pushed it forward and introduced me to one another. I was able to enter into that beat family for a while and document it.
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?
Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.
Howard Marks is a great friend and a great Welshman.
He's living with artists!" said his mother tearfully to the ambassador. "Oh, leave the boy alone," said the ambassador. "He'll soon get sick of it, like he did of his girlfriend, like he did of crystals, pyramids, incense, and marijuana.
Tamas had heard that every genius was equal parts madness. He
Marvin the Paranoid Android sat slumped, ignoring all and ignored by all, in a private and rather unpleasant world of his own.
The Scientist - with capital letters and no smile.
Margaret Benton; creative marketing director
CEO of People Incorporated,
Everything about Wesley Ayers is messy. My three worlds are kept apart by walls and doors and locks, and yet here he is, tracking the Archive into my life like mud. I know what Da would say, I know, I know, I know. But the strange new overlap is scary and messy and welcome. I can be careful.
[S]he was my Muse, my alcoholic's bourbon on the rocks: irresistible.
[Walter Burns is] the archetypal managing editor-ruthless, self-righteous, manipulative, downright maniacal if it means an exclusive, especially one that it can congratulate itself for on its own front page.
Professor Branestawm
Veterans and remarkable rookies. International Thriller Writers, Inc. (ITW) cofounder, David
Fred Rice, gunslinger, badest hombre ever to grace the American Southwest desert since Pancho Villa.
Dr. Sarvis with his bald mottled dome and savage visage, grim and noble as Sibelius, was out night-riding on a routine neighborhood beautification project, burning billboards along the highway - U.S. 66,
I only snatched him to get your attention," I said. "Now that I've got it, this is what I want."
"Damn my dame!" Al shouted, hands raised to the ceiling. "I knew it! Not another list!
I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.
[Comment when told that he had won a Nobel prize, referring to the drug he discovered for the treatment of heart disease.]
author of more than
Oh, no," Simi said. "We can't have that. Where you going, Mr. Meanie-Pants? You don't hurt people then run. That's just rude." She looked back at Caleb. "Can the Simi barbecue him, or is he on the 'No Simi' eat list?
Hayes. Peter Hayes.
Windell Oskay is the co-founder of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, a Silicon Valley company that has designed and produced specialized electronics and robotics kits since 2007.
Who you looking at-- Darren Shan
Drew Baylor, right?
Rees, the secret of a Scientist is not what he knows. It's what he asks.
Sherlock Holmes In
Charles Simic, when asked what he thought of Slam Poetry events: "They are fun, but they have as much to do with poetry as Elvis Presley had to do with Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk".
Mr. Laurence. I have got a letter for the lady.
Jesse Joyce is a great writer.
A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.
D.L Sparks author of All That Glitters.
Sometimes I get jealous when I'm reading a great book by a younger writer. But 'White Tiger' is so good, I almost forgot to hate Aravind Adiga.
I'll be like your bodyguard or something. Me Tarzan. You Jane.
GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD
The bookworm of great libraries.
Frederick Sweet Ph.D.
Alex was a world. He was an entire galaxy. A universe of possibilities.
There were copies on the table. Ten-A-Fly dressed like Snoop Dogg on a bender making gangsta hand signs that made one think not so much of intimidation as an unusual state of palsy.
A king of infinite space
Miles is ... Miles; close to a force of nature, climbing up out of his own pages and escaping subordination to any opinion of mine.
The SAGE OF RESEARCH
The best introduction to the psychological world of one of the most important and gifted writers of our time.
Mr. Montgomery pushes the envelope. It's everything we shouldn't do, yet, he makes us want to, anyway.
Upshaw - Apsaroke, 1905. Curtis's friend and interpreter Alexander Upshaw, "perfectly educated and absolutely uncivilized," as Curtis said of him, had trouble shuttling between two worlds. He chose to pose in the clothes of his ancestors.
The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.
What are you Barrons?"
"The one who will never let you die, and that's more, Ms Lane, than anyone in your life has been able to say to you. More than anyone else can do
P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.
James Dashner is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Maze Runner series as well as the Mortality Doctrine series, the 13th Reality series, and two books in the Infinity Ring series:
brilliant and audacious as ever - a beat poet of paranoia. He
Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.
Jay Gatsby: Old sport.
Nobody. Mr nobody. Mr bones and mr had enough and mr arthur itis. Now get out and leave me alone.
John D. MacDonald is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade laurels?
Albert tin. Why're
Anne Shirley. Anne with an e.
If anyone loved danger, Jev Brennan did.
Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE!
Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you're over here like this?
Calvin: ... I don't think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.
Hi, Billy Mays here for ...Billy-- Billy Mays
Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.
What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.
Oh, those Maddox boys," Ellison said,
Dangerous Visions, which had, almost single-handedly, changed the way readers thought about science fiction. Since Ellison had been at least partially successful