NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 21, 2024
To trivializers, God is a resource and religion is a technique, and the combo is unbeatable. “Religion” from the book “Trivializing America” (1983) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 14, 2024
War …the fiercest face in the rogue’s gallery of world problems—king of the beasts—and trailing behind it, Disease, Famine, Poverty, Erosion, Overpopulation…but every one of these ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 7, 2024
They’ve spilled their blood for the rights of men, For people the likes of me and you And they ask that we do not fail them again In the days we are coming to. “14 August” broadc ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 31, 2024
The word had authority. And ideas had authority. “The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview with Norman Corwin” December 28, 2004 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 24, 2024
I don’t despair yet of the American capacity to regenerate, to renew the stamina and fiber of our people, but I think that we’re living in an age of mediocrity and that the people ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 17, 2024
We the people—most of us, anyway—give credit to God for the special effects of creation, starting with time. But the measurement of time is our invention. It was we who came up wi ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 10, 2024
For good or ill, there’s something to be said for the auteur. From the book, “Years of the Electric Ear” (1994) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 3, 2024
The world citizen attacks famine as he would an enemy. “Citizen of the World” broadcast July 10, 1949 on CBS ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for February 25, 2024
There was in many of my productions a social awareness, that we’re not living in a vacuum, that there was a need for responsible citizenship and world awareness. “The Poet Laure ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for February 18, 2024
As a people, as a culture, we have become so alienated from poetry that whenever a playwright has the pluck to raise his language above the colloquial, or goes beyond the permissi ...
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