John Madera

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…

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

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

Happy birthday, John Berger! Here are some quotes from the writer: “The past grows gradually around one, like…

Happy birthday, Edward Said! Here’s a PDF of his book very much pertinent book The Question of Palestine. And here…

Happy birthday, Denise Levertov! Here are some quotes from the writer: “to go / just that much further, beyond…

Happy birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin! Here are some quotes from the writer: “To learn which questions are unanswerable,…

Happy birthday, Oscar Wilde! Here are some quotes from the imaginative subversive: “[A]ll sentences are sentences of death.”…

Happy birthday, Italo Calvino! Here are quotes from the writer: “What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other…

Happy birthday, Michel Foucault! Here are some quotes from the philosopher and historian: “But couldn’t everyone’s life become a…