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Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it’s done right. Even a pancake.

Julia Child

Today would’ve been the wise-cracking culinary genius’ 100th birthday. For more of her lovely and insightful witticisms, here you go.

Posted on Wednesday, August 15th 2012

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Ernest Hemingway

Posted on Monday, May 7th 2012

What was Kurt like in class as a teacher?

He was passionate, indignant. He wheezed with laughter. He laughed at his own jokes. He was practical. He was shy. He amused himself, during workshops, by doodling. He was kind. He was entertaining. He was smart.

Kurt Vonnegut at the Writers’ Workshop – a former student remembers what the iconic author was like as a teacher. Related must-read, Kurt Vonnegut: A Life.

Posted on Wednesday, December 14th 2011

Source brooklynrail.org

I hate them. It’s like making believe there’s another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.

Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak, angry and hilarious as ever, on ebooks. His new (wonderfully analog) book, Bumble-Ardy, is out this month and an absolute treat

Posted on Tuesday, October 4th 2011

Source Guardian