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Tag Archives: author birthdays
Happy Birthday, Lillian Hellman
They’re fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don’t listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. • Lillian Hellman •
Happy Birthday, Salman Rushdie
A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. • Salman Rushdie • (Visit Salman Rushdie’s author page at BookPage.com.)
Happy Birthday, Peter Mayle
Best advice I’ve ever received: Finish. • Peter Mayle • (Visit Peter Mayle’s author page on BookPage.com.)
Happy Birthday, Audrey Niffenegger
At heart I am a novel reader, but I am also very happy to read comics, history, medical books, poetry, books about printing and bookmaking, type specifiers, children’s books, essays, art history and theory, biography . . . heck, I’ll … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Rona Jaffe
When I saw that today is Rona Jaffe’s birthday, I couldn’t help but pounce on the opportunity to write about one of my most guilty of reading pleasures, The Best of Everything—which utterly fascinated me the first time I read … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, William Styron
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. • William Styron • (Visit William Styron’s author page on BookPage.com.)
Happy Birthday, Maurice Sendak
You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson—she’s probably the top—Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. • Maurice Sendak • (Visit Maurice … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Louise Erdrich
It didn’t occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Sarah Dessen
I was the kind of kid that people always sighed over and said, “She has such a wild imagination,” which usually meant “I wish Sarah would try to stick to the truth.” I have a tendency to embellish: I think … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Michael Chabon
All novels are sequels; influence is bliss. • Michael Chabon • (Visit Michael Chabon’s author page on BookPage.com.)
Happy Birthday, Mitch Albom
Sharing tales of those we’ve lost is how we keep from really losing them. • Mitch Albom • (Check out Mitch Albom’s author page on BookPage.com.)
Happy Birthday, Joseph Heller
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. • Joseph Heller •
Happy Birthday, Annie Dillard
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. • Annie Dillard • (Check out Annie Dillard’s author page on BookPage.com.)
Happy Birthday, Maud Hart Lovelace
She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Nick Hornby
Reading begets reading. • Nick Hornby • (Check out Nick Hornby’s author page on BookPage.com.)
