A Quote by Margaret Atwood

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

Margaret Atwood

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Allan Poe Bradbury Early Edgar Fond Kafka Poe Ray Very Warped

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Margaret Atwood
Canadian - Novelist
Born: November 18, 1939

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

Tom Robbins

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

John Lennon

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

Giles Foden

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

Edgar Allan Poe is amazing because he was so dark. He's from Baltimore and so cynical that you can feel it when you're reading, it feels so honest.

Goldlink

Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age.

Mervyn Peake

If I'm too old to be Emo, how do you account for the very Emo and very old Edgar Allan Poe? Checkmate!

John Green

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Susan Cheever

No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.

H. P. Lovecraft

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

James Van Praagh

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