December 2011
13 posts
“I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or...”
– Penelope Fitzgerald (b. 1916)
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“Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today’s employer is seeking.”
– John Kennedy Toole, born on this day in 1937
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This book is definitely about a fractured...
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“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking...”
– Jane Austen (b. 1775)
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Two weeks before Christmas Alan called me and...
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“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in...”
– Gustave Flaubert (b.1821)
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“If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.”
– Naguib Mahfouz, who would have turned 100 today
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“When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then...”
– John Milton (b. 1608)
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“Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.”
– James Thurber, born on this day in 1894
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In today’s PEN Podcast, John Lonergan share his...
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“Writing fiction is … an endless and always defeated effort to capture some...”
– Rose Wilder Lane (b. 1886)
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“Writing is a habit, an addiction, as powerful and overmastering an urge as...”
– T.C. Boyle (b. 1948)