March 27, 2013March 27, 2013 Reluctant Blogger “It’s a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.” Amy Tan
December 5, 2012December 5, 2012 Reluctant Blogger The Cervantes Prize or Premio de Literatura en Lengua Castellana Miguel de Cervantes
November 6, 2012November 6, 2012 Reluctant Blogger “She’s the most important person in the world and her family living in poverty. If our mother is so important to science, why can’t we get health insurance?” Deborah “Dale” Lacks, Henrietta Lacks’ daughter
August 24, 2012 Reluctant Blogger ‘I always liked to think he made me and all of us better than we were. He was just about the smartest man I ever met.’—Liz Smith about Gore Vidal
June 30, 2012December 8, 2022 Reluctant Blogger “The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.” – Dawn Fraser (Australian swimmer, 3-time winner at the Olympics)
June 22, 2012June 22, 2012 Reluctant Blogger “I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.” Reynolds Price
April 12, 2012April 12, 2012 Reluctant Blogger “but tho’ an old man, I am but a young gardener.” Thomas Jefferson
March 14, 2012March 16, 2012 Reluctant Blogger “… many Latino writers use Spanish in their work because it is an integral part of their experience.” Delia Poey and Virgil Suarez, eds. “Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction.”
February 23, 2012February 23, 2012 Reluctant Blogger “A great book combines enlightenment with enchantment. It awakens our imagination and enlarges our humanity.” National Endowment of for the Arts about the Big Read
February 18, 2012February 23, 2012 Reluctant Blogger “So Henry found himself stepping off the bus three stops early and wandering over to the Panama Hotel, a place between worlds when he was a child, a place between times now that he was a grown man.” Jamie Ford writes in “The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet.”
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