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