Literary Birthday

Cornelia Funke

Literary Birthday – 10 December – Cornelia Funke

  • Posted on 10th December 2012
Happy Birthday, Cornelia Funke, born 10 December 1958 Seven Quotes About Books Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly. Books have to be…
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Joanna Trollope

Literary Birthday – 9 December – Joanna Trollope

  • Posted on 9th December 2012
Happy Birthday, Joanna Trollope, born 9 December 1943 What has been the greatest writing influence for Joanna Trollope? 'Simply - just life, I think. At certain stages - I’m sure this is true of everyone - a particular person or book or idea or movie can…
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Bill Bryson

Literary Birthday – 8 December – Bill Bryson

  • Posted on 8th December 2012
Happy Birthday, Bill Bryson, born 8 December 1951 Bill Bryson: Nine Quotes There are things you just can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he’s ready to see you, and you can’t go home again.…
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Willa Cather

Literary Birthday – 7 December – Willa Cather

  • Posted on 7th December 2012
Willa Cather was born 7 December 1873, and died 24 April 1947 Willa Cather: 10 Quotes Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves…
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Literary Birthday – 4 December – Thomas Carlyle

  • Posted on 4th December 2012
Thomas Carlyle was born 4 December 1795, and died 5 February 1881 Thomas Carlyle: 10 Literary Quotes What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. Writing is…
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Joseph Conrad

Literary Birthday – 3 December – Joseph Conrad

  • Posted on 3rd December 2012
Joseph Conrad was born born 3 December 1857, and died 3 August 1924 Joseph Conrad Quotes The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Of all the inanimate objects, of all men’s creations, books are…
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Literary Birthday – 2 December – Ann Patchett

  • Posted on 2nd December 2012
Happy Birthday, Ann Patchett, born 2 December 1963 Nine Quotes Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. Reading fiction not only develops our imagination…
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Jonathan Swift

Literary Birthday – 30 November – Jonathan Swift

  • Posted on 30th November 2012
Jonathan Swift was born 30 November 1667, and died 19 October 1745 Jonathan Swift: 10 Quotes Books, the children of the brain. Just get the right syllable in the proper place. Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is…
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