Irving L. Fiske was an American playwright, writer, and public speaker.He worked for the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, where he was a writer and rewrite man on The WPA Guide to New York City, in print today. He corresponded with George Bernard Shaw, wrote an article now considered a classic, "Bernard Shaw's Debt to William Blake," and translated Shakespeare's Hamlet into Modern English. He and his wife Barbara Fiske Calhoun co-founded the artist's retreat and "hippie commune" Quarry Hill Creative Center, on the Fiske family property, in Rochester, Vermont. Wikipedia
“Adults must remember that they look like insane giants to children.”
Attributed without citation in Isabella Fiske McFarlin, et al., "Free The Kids! and Quarry Hill Community" http://search.proquest.com/openview/e76b1d1a966283049dcf60bcb9386c4d/1, Journal of Psychohistory, Vol. 21 No. 1 (Summer 1993), p. 21
“Hitting a child is worse than murder!”
Source: Spoken to parents hitting their children by Irving whenever he saw it. Also spoken in most of the talks he gave on psychological transcendence and awareness. It probably appears in one of the books or magazines with pieces on Q. Hill and Irving Fiske, but I will need to look for it.
1984 interview, quoted in The Burlington Free Press (6 May 1990), p. 5 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/201083677/
