In high school I became a vegetarian more times than I can now remember, most often as an effort to claim some identity in a world of people whose... →
Jonathan Safran Foer
We often talk about people with great memories as though it were some sort of an innate gift, but that is not the case. Great memories are learned.... →
Joshua Foer
Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and... →
Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of... →
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
Ken Follett
One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
Jean de La Fontaine
I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a... →
Horton Foote
It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?
Steve Forbert
So often in TV, when you have an antagonist who's supposed to be the 'big baddie,' it's so easy for them to become cliched.
Michelle Forbes
I don't know if we ever fully get over the pain of watching a child trying to find their way through a world that too often doesn't... →
Anne Ford