Irving Fiske

Irving Fiske (5 March 1908 – 25 April 1990), born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn, New York, was a playwright, inventor, freelance writer, speaker, and the co-founder of Quarry Hill Creative Center. He was the author of Hamlet in Modern English and Bernard Shaw's Debt to William Blake. Quotes We're free and easy. We're not very authoritative. We have no doctrine, no dogma. It is a community of mostly people who are interested in the arts, literature, photography, music. 1984 interview, quoted in The Burlington Free Press (6 May 1990), p. 5 Adults must remember that they look like insane giants to children. Attributed without citation in Isabella Fiske McFarlin, et al., "Free The Kids! and Quarry Hill Community", Journal of Psychohistory, Vol. 21 No. 1 (Summer 1993), p. 21 "'Hitting a child is worse than MURDER!" Irving Fiske said this every time he gave a talk on childhood and children. He was a children's rights activist ahead of his time. I'll try to find you a published source, but it was one of his most frequently spoken expressions. Often said to people who were hitting their kids. -- Isabella Fiske McFarlin External links Category:People from New York City Category:Playwrights from the United States Category:Inventors Category:Jews from the United States Category:1908 births Category:1990 deaths