Quotes – BIG OTHER

“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”

Happy birthday, Gustave Flaubert! Here are some quotes from the writer. “Talent is a long patience, and originality…

Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson! Here are some selections from her writing. “If I read a book [and] it…

Happy birthday, Clarice Lispector! Here are some quotes from the author. “Everything in the world began with a…

Happy birthday, Noam Chomsky! 91, today! Here are some quotes from the linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic,…

Happy birthday, Joan Didion! 85, today! “As it happens, I am still committed to the idea that the…

Happy birthday, Rainer Maria Rilke! Here are some quotes from the writer. “Surely all art is the result…

Happy birthday, George Saunders! 61, today! Here are some quotes from Saunders about writing, etc.: “To me,…

Happy birthday, Arundhati Roy! 58, today! Here are some quotes from the author. “For reasons that I don’t…

Happy birthday, Guy Davenport! Here are some quotes from the writer. “Avoid the suave flow of prose that’s…

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