May 19, 2019May 19, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Theater, Writing“I am a writer. I am going to write.” Happy birthday, Lorraine Hansberry! Here are some quotes from the great playwright. “Look at the world that awaits you!” “Write… Read More
May 18, 2019May 18, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing“We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that’s performed upon it.” Happy birthday, W. G. Sebald! Here are some quotes from his writing. “‘It is thanks to my evening reading… Read More
May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, WritingA Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Don DeLillo’s The Names “I commute all sentences.” —from Don Delillo’s The Names (p.32) This is lifted from a paragraph where a father, after a… Read More
May 8, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing“Why should things be easy to understand?” Happy birthday, Thomas Pynchon! 82, today! Here is Against the Day‘s Jesse’s school essay on “What It Means to Be… Read More
May 7, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing“‘Reason cannot produce the poetry disorder does.'” “Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.” “A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle;… Read More
May 6, 2019May 6, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, WritingA Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Tishani Doshi’s River of Girls “This is the sound of ten million girls singing of a time in the universe when they were born with… Read More
April 30, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing“Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you.” Happy birthday, Annie Dillard! 74. today! “It’s about waking up. A child wakes up over and over again, and notices… Read More
April 29, 2019April 29, 2019 - Books, Quotes, Reading, WritingA Sentence About a Sentence I Love: From Friedrich Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols “This human nose, for instance, of which no philosopher has yet spoken with reverence and gratitude, is, for the present,… Read More
April 28, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing“Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it’s knowledge and questions.” Happy birthday, Roberto Bolaño! Here are some quotes from his writing. “[T]he secret story is the one we’ll never know,… Read More
April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing“Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain.” Happy birthday, Louise Glück! 76, today! Here are some quotes from the writer. “Poetry survives because it haunts and it… Read More