Quotes – BIG OTHER

Henry James on Art, Life, Writing, Criticism, and More.

Happy birthday, Henry James! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Try to be one of the people…

Happy birthday, Samuel Beckett! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Birth was the death of him.” …

Happy birthday, Georges Perec! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Space is a doubt…” “Why not…

Happy birthday, Gabriel García Márquez! Here are some quotes from his writing: “A novelist can do anything he…

Happy birthday, David Foster Wallace! Here are some quotes from the writer: “The truth will set you free. But…

Happy birthday, Audre Lorde! Here are some quotes from the writer: “For the master’s tools will never dismantle the…

Happy birthday, J. M. Coetzee! 81, today! Here are some quotes from the author: “Unimaginable perhaps, but the…

Happy birthday, Gerhard Richter! 89, today! Here are some paintings by and quotes from the artist. “Art is…

Happy birthday, William S. Burroughs! Here are some quotes from this writer’s provocative writing: “The word is now…

Happy birthday, Robert Coover! 89, today, and still kicking fiction’s keister! Here are some quotes from a writer whose…