— Stewart Lee English stand-up comedian, writer, director and musician 1968
Series 1 Episode 1: "Toilet Books"
„Only a few weeks ago, in the year in which I write, Carl T. Rowan died. Hearing the news, I felt the sadness one feels when a writer dies, a writer one claims as one's own“
as potent a sense of implication as for the loss of a body one has known. Over the years, I had seen Rowan on TV. He was not, of course he was not, the young man who had been with me by the heater — the photograph on the book jacket, the voice that spoke through my eyes. The muscles of my body must form the words and the chemicals of my comprehension must form the words, the windows, the doors, the Saturdays, the turning pages of another life, a life simultaneous with mine.
It is a kind of possession, reading. Willing the Other to abide in your present. His voice, mixed with sunlight, mixed with Saturday, mixed with my going to bed and then getting up, with the pattern and texture of the blanket, with the envelope from a telephone bill I used as a bookmark. With going to Mass. With going to the toilet. With my mother in the kitchen, with whatever happened that day and the next; with clouds forming over the Central Valley, with the flannel shirt I wore, with what I liked for dinner, with what was playing at the Alhambra Theater. I remember Carl T. Rowan, in other words, as myself, as I was. Perhaps that is what one mourns.
Brown : The Last Discovery of America (2003)
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American journalist and essayist 1944Ähnliche Zitate
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
Letter sent to the ECLC after Dylan received the Tom Paine Award at the Bill of Rights dinner on December 13, 1963, as reported in "Mr. Dylan Regrets" http://www.hotpress.com/Bob-Dylan/music/interviews/Mr-Dylan-Regrets/2836632.html by Niall Stokes, Hot Press (11 November 2005)
— Renata Adler American author, journalist and film critic 1938
Quelle: Speedboat
— Park Chung-hee Korean Army general and the leader of South Korea from 1961 to 1979 1917 - 1979
Diary entry (October 1974), as quoted in The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History Revised and Updated http://books.google.com/books?id=yJZKpYXh2SAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Two+Koreas:+A+Contemporary+History+revised+updated&hl=en&sa=X&ei=X-xvU5TRFPOisQSa34CIBA&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=already%20into%20the%20last%20week&f=false (2001), by Don Oberdorfer, p. 55.
1970s
„When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.“
— Julia Quinn American novelist 1970
Quelle: What Happens in London
— William Saroyan American writer 1908 - 1981
In the The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952) Saroyan additionally wrote of Shaw:
He was a gentle, delicate, kind, little man who had established a pose, and then lived it so steadily and effectively that the pose had become real. Like myself, his nature has been obviously a deeply troubled one in the beginning. He had been a man who had seen the futility, meaninglessness and sorrow of life but had permitted himself to thrust aside these feelings and to perform another George Bernard Shaw, which is art and proper.
Hello Out There (1941)
„I was born when he kissed me, I died when he left me, I lived a few weeks while he loved me“
— Dorothy B. Hughes, buch In a Lonely Place
Variante: I was born when you kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.
Quelle: In a Lonely Place
„young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.“
— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994
Quelle: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
„She was beautiful when she died—a hundred years ago.“
— Garrett Fort screenwriter 1900 - 1945
Prof. Von Helsing (Edward Van Sloan)
Dracula's Daughter (1936)
— Nigella Lawson British food writer, journalist and broadcaster 1960
As quoted in "Reality bites" by Simon Hattenstone in The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,784535,00.html (2 September 2002)
— Ernest Hemingway, buch Death in the Afternoon
Hemingway's famous iceberg theory of writing.
Quelle: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 16
— Chris Cornell American singer-songwriter, musician 1964 - 2017
Chris Cornell: The Rolling Stone Interview, Alec Foege, Rolling Stone, 29 December 1994 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/the-rolling-stone-interview-chris-cornell-19941229,
Soundgarden Era
— Rex Stout American writer 1886 - 1975
Rex Stout, on why he turned from writing serious fiction to detective stories
The New York Times, "An Interview with Mister Rex Stout"
— Roger Kahn American baseball writer 1927 - 2020
Quelle: The Boys Of Summer, Lines On The Transpontine Madness, p. xxi
— Edvin Kanka Cudic Human rights defender 1988
Miloš Urošević, as quoted in May '92 (2012) p.19
About
— Jonathan Safran Foer, buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah
Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
