L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter
"The Witchcraft of Mary-Marie", in Baum's American Fairy Tales (1908)
Short stories
“When my sonnet was rejected, I exclaimed, 'Damn the age; I will write for Antiquity!”
Letter to Proctor (January 22, 1829), in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject (2000), p. 526
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John Kenneth Galbraith book The Affluent Society
Source: The Affluent Society (1958), Chapter 23, Section VI, p. 258
A.R. Ammons (1926–2001) American poet
Paris Review interview (1996)
Context: I write for love, respect, money, fame, honor, redemption. I write to be included in a world I feel rejected by. But I don’t want to be included by surrendering myself to expectations. I want to buy my admission to others by engaging their interests and feelings, doing the least possible damage to my feelings and interests but changing theirs a bit. I think I was not aware early on of those things. I wrote early on because it was there to do and because if anything good happened in the poem I felt good. Poems are experiences as well as whatever else they are, and for me now, nothing, not respect, honor, money, seems as supportive as just having produced a body of work, which I hope is, all considered, good.
“The age of antiquity is the youth of the world.”
Francis Bacon book The Advancement of Learning
The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book I, v, 8
(la) Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi.
Context: The age of antiquity is the youth of the world. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.
“I write what I believe in and don't care a damn about the consequences.”
Khushwant Singh (1915–2014) Indian novelist and journalist
I Don't Know One Editor In India Who Is Well-Read
Anthony Fauci (1940) American immunologist and head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Quoted in 'You don't want to go to war with a president' https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/03/anthony-fauci-trump-coronavirus-crisis-118961, 3 March 2020, Politico
David Myatt (1950) British writer
Source: Disclaimer (2013) http://davidmyatt.wordpress.com/about/disclaimer-2/
“I couldn't give a damn, [he said]. Writing is where I succeeded. I was a flop in everything else.”
Khushwant Singh (1915–2014) Indian novelist and journalist
Khushwant Singh releases his last book