Birthday – Page 2

“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.”

Happy birthday, Langston Hughes! Here are some quotes from his writing: “I have discovered in life that there…

Happy birthday, Shira Dentz! Celebrate by reading these superb poems we published June 11, 2019. Spring, mid-afternoon I…

Happy birthday, Richard Brautigan! Here are some quotes from this superb writer’s writing: “I like to think (it has to…

Happy birthday, Anton Chekhov(!), great Russian playwright and short story writer, about whom George Saunders wrote: That’s one of…

Happy birthday, Colette! Here are some quotes from this great writer: “Put down everything that comes into your…

Happy birthday, Virginia Woolf! Here’s a compilation of quotes from some of Woolf’s many books, letters, diaries, and essays:…

Happy birthday, Edith Wharton! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Some things are best mended by a…

Happy birthday, David Lynch! 74, today! “We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what…

Happy birthday, Gilles Deleuze! Here are some quotes from the writer: “[T]o write is to struggle and resist;…

Happy birthday, Susan Sontag! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Literature is dialogue; responsiveness. Literature might be…