A Quote by Julio Cortazar

The modern story begun, one might say, with Edgar Allan Poe, which proceeds inexorably, like a machine destined to accomplish its mission with the maximum economy of means.

Julio Cortazar

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Julio Cortazar
Argentinian - Novelist
August 26, 1914 - February 12, 1984

By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision

Hugo Gernsback

I do like a good mystery. I'm reading Edgar Allan Poe now. I also like autobiographies.

James Van Praagh

The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe's pajamas.

Tom Robbins

Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest

William Friedkin

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

Giles Foden

Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.

John Lennon

My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.

Ross Lynch

I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot.

Andy Richter

Edgar Allan Poe, an earlier UVA student, once complained in a letter that his stepfather spoke to him as if Poe were one of the black slaves; some of the students at UVA surely felt the same about being told what to do by faculty.

Matthew Pearl

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.

Jack Prelutsky

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

Margaret Atwood

I belong to the Lovecraft Society, which meets at the University. They do things like follow in Lovecraft's footsteps, just like he followed in Edgar Allan Poe's footsteps. I mean the actual footfalls, you know, like they're going out looking for sasquatch, this kind of stuff.

Paul Laffoley

I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a kind of demonic joy in writing.

Paul Auster

Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like, 8 years old that was my grandfather's, and I still carry it around with me.