June 2011
“Ever drifting down the stream —
Lingering in the golden gleam —
Life, what is...”
– Lewis Carroll, from A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky
“Whether you suffer or not, nothingness will swallow you forever… nothing created...”
– E.M. Cioran
The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In... →
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30. Gustave Flaubert on George Sand
“A great cow full of ink.”
29. Robert Louis Stevenson on Walt Whitman “…like a large shaggy dog just unchained scouring the beaches of the world and baying at the moon.”
28. Friedrich Nietzsche on Dante Alighieri “A hyena that wrote poetry on tombs.”
27. Harold Bloom on J.K. Rowling (2000) “How to read ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s...
“i tell my piano the things i used to tell you.”
– Frédéric Chopin
“Olive often imagined there was an orchestra in her heart, music heard only by...”
– Pushing Daisies
“The three facets of the great writer — magic, story, lesson — are prone to blend...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
“I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but...”
– Gustave Flaubert
