“The texts we write are not visible until they are written. Like a creature coaxed from out a dark wood, the text reveals itself ‘little by little.'”
-Rikki Ducornet
“A book as thin as a Ritz-Carlton sandwich.”
-Stephen Leacock
“One late afternoon of early winter in the hour when the skies and streets of Paris take on the color of turtledoves, I stumbled into a dead end that angled curiously backwards like a broken finger, and found myself gazing into the window of a shop unike any other I had ever seen, for it contained a dazzling assortment of anamorphoses, some several hundred years old.”
-Rikki Ducornet
“Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.”
– Francine Prose
The Simile Museum 