365 ratings (3.47 avg)
303 reviews
more photos (2)

Corey

Corey’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (2152)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (449)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
laughed-out-loud‎ (92)
favorites‎ (72)

school‎ (60)
did-not-finish-2‎ (40)
sex-drugs-rock-and-roll‎ (40)
biographies-and-memoirs‎ (39)
classics‎ (39)
essays‎ (31)

short-stories‎ (28)
philosophy‎ (25)
iranian-diaspora‎ (22)
poetry‎ (18)
save-the-drama-for-your-mama‎ (17)
conflict-of-interest‎ (12)

experimenting-with-e-readers‎ (12)
partially-read‎ (8)
proof-i-havent-really-earned-my-mfa‎ (8)

Stats | More…

Corey’s Quotes

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

tags: imagination, inspiration, writing

6966 likes

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

tags: philosophy, taoism

721 likes

“Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
― William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own

tags: justice, law

193 likes

“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

tags: severity

576 likes

“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence”
― Bertrand Russell

tags: god, religion

1043 likes

More of Corey’s quotes…

recent posts
Corey’s Groups

Ask Gary Shteyngart - Friday, March 7th! — 183 members — last activity Mar 08, 2014 09:10PM
Join us on Friday, March 7th, for a special discussion with author Gary Shteyngart! The author will be discussing his book Little Failure. Become a f ...more

Completists' Club — 545 members — last activity Mar 25, 2026 12:59PM
A group for those attempting to complete, or who have completed, the canons of their favourite writers. Share your canon-wide knowledge and opinion wi ...more

Literary Fiction Dialogue — 171 members — last activity Mar 23, 2026 04:54AM
A place for literary fiction readers and writers to engage in an open dialogue concerning the state of literature today, book recommendations, discuss ...more