Kingsley William Amis On Drinking
Kingsley William Amis (April 16, 1922 – October 22, 1995) The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the…
Joan Miró On Creativity
Joan Miró (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983) The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes…
Katherine Hepburn On Satisfaction
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun. If you always do…
Adrienne Rich On Poets
Adrienne Rich (May 16, 1929–March 27, 2012) I have been a poet of the oppositional imagination, meaning that I don't think my only argument is…
George Orwell On Fascism
George Orwell (June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950) If you pretend that it is merely an aberration which will presently pass off of its…
Alice Koller On Writing
Alice Koller The only “doing” that’s the same every day is that most writers go to the same desk and chair that we sat in…
John Steinbeck On Literature
John Steinbeck (February 27, 1902–December 20, 1968) Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it and it has not…
