Books – Page 2 – BIG OTHER

“You say what you want to say when you don’t care who’s listening.”

Happy birthday, Allen Ginsberg! Here are some quotes from his writing. “To gain your own voice, forget about having…

“Things—small things—are riding down the gutter with the rain.” —Paradise Field, Pamela Ryder The poetic weight of a…

Happy 200th birthday, Walt Whitman! Here are some quotes from his writing. “This is what you shall do: Love…

“The femur is the longest and strongest bone in the human body.” Here’s a sentence from Gray‘s Anatomy that my…

Happy birthday, John Barth! 89, today! Here are some quotes from the author. “Self-knowledge is always bad news.” “[F]iction…

Happy birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson! Here are some quotes from his writing. “The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.”…

Happy birthday, Raymond Carver! Here are some quotes from his books and interviews. “At the risk of appearing foolish,…

Happy birthday, Lucie Brock-Broido! Here are some quotes from the poet. “I, abstract, adoring, distant / And unsalvageable.” “Wonderment…

“The Big One was obviously one of those epoxy-and-metal eggs produced by itself—the Platonic Idea of a pebble turned inside…

Happy birthday, Lorraine Hansberry! Here are some quotes from the great playwright. “Look at the world that awaits you!” “Write…