Quote by: Laura Riding

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.


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Author Bio


  • NameLaura Riding
  • Descriptionpoet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
  • AliasesMadeleine Vara; Laura Reichenthal; Laura Riding Gottschalk; Barbara Rich; Laura Riding Jackson
  • BornJanuary 16, 1901
  • DiedSeptember 2, 1991
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Bollingen Prize