Ursula K. Le Guin Rest In Power

“…I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.” – Susan Sontag

INTERVIEWER

Do you think much about the audience for your books?

SONTAG

Don’t dare. Don’t want to. But, anyway, I don’t write because there’s an audience. I write because there is literature.

– Paris Review, The Art of Fiction No. 143

Documentary: George Orwell – A Life in Pictures

Swift thought

“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.”

– Jonathan Swift 

Live from the NYPL: William Gibson

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Bill Moyers talks to Wendell Berry: Poet and Prophet