Author: Garth Risk Hallberg

Cites

• G. K. Chesterton (1)
  • IN: City on Fire (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "There is your precious order, that lean, iron lamp, ugly and barren; and there is anarchy, rich, living, reproducing itself -- there is anarchy, splendid in green and gold." "All the same," replied Syme patiently, "just at present you only see the tree by light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree."
    FROM: The Man Who Was Thursday, (1908), Novel, UK
• James Agee (1)
  • IN: A Field Guide to the North American Family (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A piece of the body torn out by the roots might be more to the point.
    FROM: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, (1941), Book, US