September 13, 2013 Quote Unquote On Chocolate By Sadie Stein “For the record, I am not overly fond of chocolate-flavoured foods such as chocolate cake and chocolate ice-cream. I prefer my chocolate straight.” —Roald Dahl, The Chocolate Revolution
September 11, 2013 Quote Unquote Gesundheit By Sadie Stein D. H. Lawrence, by Maria Hubrecht, chalk, 1920–21. National Portrait Gallery. “I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.” ―D. H. Lawrence, letter to Cynthia Asquith, 1913
September 9, 2013 Quote Unquote Good Things By Sadie Stein Leo Tolstoy by Leonid Pasternak. “The best stories don’t come from ‘good vs. bad’ but ‘good vs. good.’” —Leo Tolstoy
August 29, 2013 Quote Unquote Past Tense By Sadie Stein “I don’t regret the present. I don’t feel it’s cheap and tawdry compared with the past. I think the past was cheap and tawdry too.” —Thom Gunn, the Art of Poetry No. 72
August 28, 2013 Quote Unquote Childish Things By Sadie Stein “Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.” —John Betjeman
August 27, 2013 Quote Unquote In the Club By Sadie Stein “I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.” —Jeanette Winterson, the Art of Fiction No. 150