Posted on October 11, 2021 “He writes nothing whose writings are not read.”—Martialis, Roman poet from Hispania, 38 AD–104 AD
Posted on September 19, 2021September 19, 2021 ” ‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.”—Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, American author & humorist, 1835-1910
Posted on September 13, 2021 “A critic ought now and then to hesitate.”—Irving Howe, American literary critic, 1920-1993
Posted on September 10, 2021September 10, 2021 “A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early; he arrives precisely when he means to!”—Gandalf in ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’/J.R.R. Tolkien, English fantasy novelist, 1892-1973; et al.
Posted on August 7, 2021August 7, 2021 “I only spout poetry when my feet hurt.”—Quintus Ennius, Roman poet, 239-169 BC
Posted on July 3, 2021July 3, 2021 “A great fortune is a great slavery.”—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Roman Stoic philosopher, c. 4 BC-65 AD
Posted on June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”—Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist, 1937-2005
Posted on May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 “One keeps on forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.”—Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette), French author, 1873-1954
Posted on April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 “I’m really a very good man; but I’m a very bad wizard.”—“The Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum, American children’s author, 1856-1919
Posted on March 22, 2021March 22, 2021 “The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”—Oscar Wilde, Irish poet & playwright, 1854-1900
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