Quotes – Page 58 – BIG OTHER

“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,…

Happy birthday, August Wilson! Here are some quotes from the playwright’s plays and interviews. “Confront the dark parts of yourself,…

Happy birthday, Louise Glück! 76, today! Here are some quotes from the writer. “Poetry survives because it haunts and it…

Happy birthday, Vladimir Nabokov! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.” “For me…

“We each of us brothers took up a fist full of nails and a hammer into each one of our…

Happy birthday, Rikki Ducornet! 76, today! Addressing “our culture’s disdain for the artist,” Rikki Ducornet, in my podcast with her…

Happy birthday, Henry James! Here are some quotes from his writing. “We work in the dark—we do what we can—we…

R.I.P., Gene Wolfe. Here are some quotes from his writing. “No man has a home unless he is master of…

“Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out…

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