March 18, 2013 Quote Unquote Happy Birthday, George! By Sadie Stein “I have never been convinced there’s anything inherently wrong in having fun.” —George Plimpton
March 13, 2013 Quote Unquote Happy Birthday, Jack Kerouac By Sadie Stein “I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.” —Jack Kerouac, The Art of Fiction No. 41
March 6, 2013 Quote Unquote Happy Birthday, Elizabeth Barrett Browning By Sadie Stein “With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.” —Elizabeth Barrett Browning
March 5, 2013 Quote Unquote March 5, 1815 By Sadie Stein “I was speaking to Mde. B. this morning about a boiled loaf, when it appeared that her master has no raspberry jam; she has some, which of course she is determined he shall have; but cannot you bring a pot when you come?” —Jane Austen to her sister, Cassandra
March 4, 2013 Quote Unquote March Madness By Sadie Stein “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” —Charles Dickens
February 27, 2013 Quote Unquote Many Happy Returns, John Steinbeck By Sadie Stein “I guess there are never enough books.” —John Steinbeck