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Literary Birthday – 24 October – Emma Donoghue

Posted on 24th October 2012

Happy Birthday, Emma Donoghue, born 24 October 1969 10 Emma Donoghue Quotes Some writers can produce marvellous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.…

Literary Birthday – 23 October – Michael Crichton

Posted on 23rd October 2012

Michael Crichton was born 23 October 1942, and died 4 November 2008 Five Michael Crichton Quotes Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice. Books aren’t written - they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the…

Literary Birthday – 22 October – Doris Lessing

Posted on 22nd October 2012

Doris Lessing was born 22 October 1919, and died 17 November 2013 Doris Lessing: 10 Quotes On Writing As you start to write at once the question begins to insist: Why do you remember this and not that? Why do you remember in every detail a whole…

Literary Birthday – 21 October – Ursula K. Le Guin

Posted on 21st October 2012

Ursula K. Le Guin was born 21 October 1929 and died 22 January 2018 Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes on Reading and Writing Writing is my craft. I honour it deeply. To have a craft, to be able to work at it, is to be honoured…

Literary Birthday – 20 October – Arthur Rimbaud

Posted on 20th October 2012

Arthur Rimbaud was born 20 October 1854, and died 10 November 1891 Five Quotes I invented colours for the vowels! A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green. I made rules for the form and movement of every consonant, and I boasted of inventing, with…

Literary Birthday – 19 October – Philip Pullman

Posted on 19th October 2012

Happy Birthday, Philip Pullman, born 19 October 1946 Philip Pullman’s Top 10 Writing Quotes Read like a butterfly, write like a bee. After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. I write almost always in the third person, and…

Literary Birthday – 18 October – Logan Pearsall Smith

Posted on 18th October 2012

Logan Pearsall Smith was born 18 October 1865, and died 2 March 1946 Quotes People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers. What things there are to…

Literary Birthday – 17 October – Arthur Miller

Posted on 17th October 2012

Arthur Miller was born 17 October 1915, and died 10 February 2005 10 Quotes Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to…

Literary Birthday – 16 October – Eugene O’Neill

Posted on 16th October 2012

Eugene O’Neill was born 16 October 1888, and died 27 November 1953 Five Quotes Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life. Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. Life is for each…

Literary Birthday – 16 October – Oscar Wilde

Posted on 16th October 2012

Oscar Wilde was born 16 October 1854, and died 30 November 1900 My Five Favourite Oscar Wilde Quotes Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. I never travel without my diary. One should always…