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November 18, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“A word after a word after a word is power.”

  Happy birthday, Margaret Atwood! 80, today! Here are some quotes from the author.   “I walk around in a…

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November 16, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.”

  Happy birthday, José Saramago! Here are some quotes from the author.   “Deep down, I don’t create anything. I’m…

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November 16, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.”

  Happy birthday, Chinua Achebe! Here are some quotes from the author.   “People create stories create people; or rather…

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November 15, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one’s happiness to express.”

  Happy birthday, Marianne Moore! Here are some quotes from the author.   “Poetry is a magic of pauses…not a…

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November 12, 2019November 12, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Roland Barthes on Language, Writing, Love, Style, Literature, and More

  Happy birthday, Roland Barthes! Here are some quotes from the author.   “There is only one way left to…

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November 11, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”

  Happy birthday, Kurt Vonnegut! Here are some quotes from the author.   “So it goes.”   “There is no…

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November 11, 2019November 11, 2020 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

Fyodor Dostoyevsky on Life, Lies, Suffering, and More

  Happy birthday, Fyodor Dostoyevsky! Here are some quotes from the author.   “What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.”…

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November 9, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“I stayed alive, therefore I am.”

  Happy birthday, Imre Kertész! Here are some quotes from the author.   “But I believe in writing—nothing else; just…

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November 8, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Good writing and good reading will break down barriers.”

  Happy birthday, Kazuo Ishiguro! 65, today! Here are some quotes from interviews with the writer and from some of…

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November 7, 2019 - Uncategorized

10th Anniversary Flash Fiction Contest!

  Win a chance to read with Elaine Equi, Robert Lopez, Dawn Raffel, and John Yau at #YeahYouWrite in NYC on January 14, 2020!* Contest Guidelines: Entries…

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