I try to communicate in a way that allows people in on what's going on. What's better than references to popular culture?

- Bart Chilton

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

- Jan Karon

When I read 'Planet Terror,' it was like nothing I had ever read before remotely, and yet it has so many references.

- Marley Shelton

I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references.

- Nathan Fillion

I take references from the past and flip them.

- Theophilus London

Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.

- Tori Amos