Author: Jess Walter

Cites

• Saul Bellow (1)
  • IN: The Financial Lives of the Poets (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Poets have to dream, and dreaming in America is no cinch.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Canada/US
• Voltaire (1)
  • IN: Beautiful Ruins (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architectures for wild beasts to fight in.
    FROM: The Complete Letters, (1880), Book, France
• NULL (2)
  • IN: Beautiful Ruins (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Cleopatra: I will not have love as my master. Marc Antony: Then you will not have love.
    FROM: Cleopatra, (1963), Film, US
  • IN: Citizen Vince (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A great nation is like a great man... He thinks of his ENEMY as the shadow that he himself casts.
    FROM: Tao Te Ching, (-350), Book, China
• Louis Menand (1)
  • IN: Beautiful Ruins (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: [Dick] Cavett's four great interviews with Richard Burton were done in 1980... Burton, fifty-four at the time, and already a beautiful ruin, was mesmerizing.
    FROM: "Talk Story", The New Yorker, (2010), Short story, US