Books – Page 2 – BIG OTHER

“A writer is a foreign country.”

Happy birthday, Marguerite Duras. Here are some quotes from the writer. “Writing comes like the wind. It’s naked, it’s made…

Today is Samuel R. Delany Day! Celebrate by reading his writing: fiction, memoir, criticism, essays, and letters of the highest…

Happy birthday, Octavio Paz! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Art is the opposite of dissipation, in the physical…

Happy birthday, Mario Vargas Llosa! 83, today! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Like writing, reading is a…

Happy birthday, Bohumil Hrabal! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Writing is a defence against boredom, but it’s also…

“I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is…

Happy 100th birthday, Lawrence Ferlinghetti! Here are some quotes from his writing. “If you would be a poet, create works…

R.I.P., Linda Gregg. Here are some poems and some quotes from her writing. “[I]t is crucial that a poet see…

“One’s life is a heavy price to pay for being born.” “He who possesses liberty otherwise than as an aspiration…

Happy birthday, César Vallejo! Here are some quotes from his writing. “The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these.…