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James Baldwin on Art, Life, Writing, Reading, and More.

Happy birthday, James Baldwin! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Artists are here to disturb the peace.”…

Happy birthday, Herman Melville! Here are some quotes from his writing. “It is better to fail in originality,…

Happy birthday, William H. Gass! Here are some quotes from his books, interviews, etc. “Naturally the artist is an…

Happy birthday, Elias Canetti! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose…

By Jill Darling In “Reviewing Reviewing: Ethos and Praxis,” published in Big Other in April 2019, Tyrone Williams reflects…

Happy birthday, Marcel Proust! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Love is space and time measured by…

Happy birthday, Nathaniel Hawthorne! Here are some quotes from the writer: “I am a citizen of somewhere else.”…

Happy birthday, Franz Kafka! Here are some quotes from the writer: “I usually solve problems by letting them…

Happy birthday, Czesław Miłosz! Here are some quotes from the writer: “I swear, there is in me no…

Happy birthday, Lucille Clifton! Here are some quotes from the author: “Come celebrate with me that every day…