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Literary Birthday – 3 October – Gore Vidal

Posted on 3rd October 2012

Gore Vidal was born 3 October 1925, and died 31 July 2012 10 Quotes The unfed mind devours itself. Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. By the time a man…

Literary Birthday – 2 October – Graham Greene

Posted on 2nd October 2012

Graham Greene was born 2 October 1904, and died 3 April 1991 Graham Greene: 14 Quotes On Life, Love, and Writing It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a…

Literary Birthday – 1 October – Tim O’Brien

Posted on 1st October 2012

Happy Birthday, Tim O’Brien, born 1 October 1946 The Shape Of Stories That’s what fiction is for. It’s for getting at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient for the truth. But this too is true: stories can save us. Stories are for joining the past…

Literary Birthday – 30 September – Téa Obreht

Posted on 30th September 2012

Happy Birthday, Téa Obreht, born 30 September 1985. Seven Quotes A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions. When I hit a block, regardless of what I am writing, what the subject matter is, or what's going on in the plot, I go back…

Literary Birthday – 30 September – Truman Capote

Posted on 30th September 2012

Truman Capote was born 30 September 1924, and died 25 August 1984 10 Quotes On Writing To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it’s about, but the inner music that words make. A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there…

Literary Birthday – 29 September – Miguel de Cervantes

Posted on 29th September 2012

Miguel de Cervantes was born 29 September 1547, and died 23 April 1616 10 Writerly Observations by Miguel de Cervantes The pen is the tongue of the mind. In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. By such innovations are languages enriched, when…

Literary Birthday – 28 September – Simon Winchester

Posted on 28th September 2012

Happy Birthday, Simon Winchester, born 28 September 1944 Five Quotes The best spur for me is a commission and a deadline. Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one…

Literary Birthday – 27 September – Irvine Welsh

Posted on 27th September 2012

Happy Birthday, Irvine Welsh, born 27 September 1958 Irvine Welsh: On Writing I’m the same kind of writer as I am a drinker. I’m a binger. I wear the same clothes for days and don’t shave. I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller,…

Literary Birthday – 26 September – T.S. Eliot

Posted on 26th September 2012

T.S. Eliot was born 26 September 1888, and died 4 January 1965 Top 10 Quotes on Writing Humour is also a way of saying something serious. Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an…

Literary Birthday – 25 September – William Faulkner

Posted on 25th September 2012

William Faulkner was born 25 September 1897, and died 6 July 1962 The 12 Best William Faulkner Quotes On Writing Poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth. The best fiction is far more true…