Monday, January 06, 2003
�And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?�
- Henry Miller (1891 � 1980), American author: �A Devil in Paradise�, reprinted in �Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch�, 1957.
�Poor illiterate boys from the slums and starving children from southern villages obviously know all they need to know even before they begin to speak. Those who never learn to read have a clear uncluttered mind: they do not have to forget what others have to learn. How old are the little boys in Naples who steal bags from parked cars and procure prostitutes for sailors on shore-leave? They are born decrepit.�
- Luigi Barzini (1908 � 1984), Italian author: �The Italians�, 1964.
�Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.�
- Norman Mailer (b. 1923), American author: �Mr. Mailer Interviews Himself� reprinted in �Conversations with Norman Mailer�, ed. J. Michael Lennon, 1980.
�The writer isn�t made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.�
- E. L. Doctrow (b. 1931), American novelist: interview in �Writers at Work� (Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton), 1988.
- Henry Miller (1891 � 1980), American author: �A Devil in Paradise�, reprinted in �Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch�, 1957.
�Poor illiterate boys from the slums and starving children from southern villages obviously know all they need to know even before they begin to speak. Those who never learn to read have a clear uncluttered mind: they do not have to forget what others have to learn. How old are the little boys in Naples who steal bags from parked cars and procure prostitutes for sailors on shore-leave? They are born decrepit.�
- Luigi Barzini (1908 � 1984), Italian author: �The Italians�, 1964.
�Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.�
- Norman Mailer (b. 1923), American author: �Mr. Mailer Interviews Himself� reprinted in �Conversations with Norman Mailer�, ed. J. Michael Lennon, 1980.
�The writer isn�t made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.�
- E. L. Doctrow (b. 1931), American novelist: interview in �Writers at Work� (Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton), 1988.
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