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November 23, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Poetry is a sort of homecoming.”

Happy birthday, Paul Celan! Here are some quotes from the author. “The poem becomes…desperate conversation.” “He speaks…

November 20, 2019November 25, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what’s happening around him.”

Happy birthday, Don DeLillo, maestro of maestros! 83, today! Meeting and three times speaking with Don DeLillo at last…

November 20, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.”

Happy birthday, Nadine Gordimer! Here are some quotes from the author. “As a writer, I’m a composite intelligence.”…

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…

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…

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…

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…

November 12, 2019November 14, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.”

Happy birthday, Roland Barthes! Here are some quotes from the author. “Language is a skin: I rub my…

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…

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

“What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.”

Happy birthday, Fyodor Dostoyevsky! Here are some quotes from the author. “Men reject their prophets and slay them,…