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Richard Wright on Life, Writing, Literature, and More

Happy birthday, Richard Wright! Here are some quotes from the writer: “All literature is protest.” “The artist…

Happy birthday, Jorge Luis Borges! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Reality is not always probable, or…

Happy birthday, John Hawkes! Here are some quotes from the author: “‘Choice means variable, variable means discontinuity, discontinuity destroys…

Happy birthday, James Baldwin! Here are some quotes from the writer: “Artists are here to disturb the peace.”…

Happy birthday, Herman Melville! Here are some quotes from his writing: “It is better to fail in originality,…

Happy birthday, William H. Gass! Here are some quotes from his books, interviews, etc. Speaking of interviews, read my career-spanning…

Happy birthday, John Ashbery! Here are some quotes from his writing: “I too often feel like a person I…

Happy birthday, Gerard Manley Hopkins! Here are some quotes from his writing: “What you look hard at seems…

Happy birthday, William T. Vollmann! 67, today! Here are some quotes from the writer: “If I try not to…

Happy birthday, Aldous Huxley! Here are some quotes from the writer: “You can’t consume much if you sit still…