“I used to be deeply against this idea [that one must suffer to produce great art]. And then I had some life events happen that were painful, and my writing got better as I worked through them. I ...

September's UVenus question comes to us from Meg Palladino -- What is your favorite proverb or saying, and why? Afshan Jafar (US) My favorite proverb: "He teaches ill, who teaches all." As a teacher, ...

“I hate quotations,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Tell me what you know.” But even that, says my guest today, was a quotation. The quotable quote, the durable quotation, is everywhere now. People stack ...

Fred Shapiro of the Yale Law Library — editor of the Yale Book of Quotations and the Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations — writes: I am working on the second edition of the Yale Book of ...