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• John Updike (b. March 18): “Writers dare to go it alone…”
• Billy Corgan (b. March 17): “I’m viewed as this weird, crippled character.”
• Jerry Lewis (b. March 16): “People hate me because I’m a genius.”
• David Cronenburg (b. March 15): “Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is their lab.”
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg (b. March 15): “Fight for the things that you care about.”
• Algernon Blackwood (b. March 14): “No man can describe to another the magic of the woman who ensnares him.”
• Michael Caine (b. March 14): “I feel a tremendous sadness for men…”
• William Macy (b. March 13): “I’m sure I have a process…”
• Adam Clayton (b. March 13): “I’m drawn to things that are sexy or aggressive.”
• Jack Kerouac (b. March 12): “Great things are not done by those who yield to trends.”
• Novels by Alan Annand: free to borrow on Amazon
• James Taylor (b. March 12): “We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.”
• Douglas Adams (b. March 11): “I love the whooshing sound of deadlines as they go by.”
• Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel (b. March 10): “Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.”
• Mickey Spillane (b. March 9th): “Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle.”
• Bobby Fischer (b. March 9th): “I like the moment when I break a man’s ego.”
• Neil Postman (b. March 8th): “In Russia, writers with grievances are arrested; in America they go on TV talk shows where only their development is arrested.”
• Kat von D (b. March 8th): “I was born naked, waiting for life to write itself on my skin.”
• Bryan Cranston (b. March 7th): “Any one of us could become dangerous.”
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez (b. March 6th): “Literature is nothing but carpentry…”
• Shaquille O’Neal (b. March 6th): “I want to be known as The Big Shakespeare.”
• Andy Gibb (b. March 5th): “Girls are always running through my mind.”
• Khaled Hosseini (b. March 4th): “Literary fiction is kept alive by women…”
• Chaz Bono (b. March 4th): “Gender’s between your ears, not between your legs.”
• Jean Harlow (b. March 3rd): “I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.”
• Jessica Biel (b. March 3rd): “I think I could drink my own blood…”
• Jon Bon Jovi (b. March 2nd): “Nothing is as important as passion…”
• John Irving (b. March 2nd): “You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
• Lou Reed (b. March 2nd): “I don’t believe in dressing up reality.”
• Linus Pauling (b. February 28): “The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”
• Brian Jones (b. February 28): “We piss anywhere, man.”
• John Steinbeck (b. February 27): “A journey is like a marriage.”
• Josh Groban (b. February 27): “Don’t try to be like me…”
• Elizabeth George (b. February 26): “I have to know the killer…”
• Victor Hugo (b. February 26): “Sorrow is a fruit…”
• Johnny Cash (b. February 26): “Success is worrying about everything except money.”
• George Harrison (b. February 25): “You’ve got as many lives as you like…”
• Steve Jobs (b. Feb 24): “Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter.”
• Johnny Winter (b. February 23): “People need the blues.”
• Peter Fonda (b. February 23): “I don’t trust anybody who didn’t inhale.”
• Luis Bunuel (b. February 22): “I can only wait for the final amnesia…”
• Drew Barrymore (b. February 22): “Love is the hardest habit to break.”
• Ellen Page (b. February 21): “The relationships with my girl friends are so powerful…”
• Ansel Adams (b. February 20): “A photograph can hold just as much as we put into it…”
• Kurt Cobain (b. February 20): “I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I’m not.”
• Jeff Daniels (b. February 19): “Every actor just wants good writing.”
• Nicolaus Copernicus (b. February 19): “To know what we do not know is true knowledge”
• Yoko Ono (b. February 18): “Everybody’s an artist.”
• Billie Joe Armstrong (b. February 17): “Obnoxious got me where I am today.”
• John McEnroe (b. February 16): “Let the racket do the talking.”
• Matt Groening (b. February 15): “You’ve got to embrace the future…”
• Jack Benny (b. February 14): “Married 47 years and never had an argument.”
• Henry Rollins (b. February 13): “The blues is not having enough money to drink…”
• Peter Gabriel (b. February 13): “Music is a living thing with an evolution.”
• Charles Darwin (b. February 12): “A man who wastes time has not discovered the value of life.”
• Ray Manzarek (b. February 12): “Psychedelics put you in touch with the creator.”
• Jennifer Aniston (b. February 11): “True love brings up everything…”
• Bertolt Brecht (b. February 10): “Unhappy the land in need of heroes.”
• Boris Pasternak (b. February 10): “I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled…”
• Brendan Behan (b. February 9th): “I’m a drinker with writing problems.”
• Carole King (b. February 9th): “I used to hate the sound of my voice.”
• John Grisham (b. February 8th): “My only plan was to keep writing books.”
• James Dean (b. February 8th): “Acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest…”
• Garth Brooks (b. February 7th): “The greatest conflicts lie within.”
• Ronald Reagan (b. February 6th): “The Ten Commandments and Congress…”
• Bob Marley (b. February 6th): “None but ourselves can free our minds.”
• William S. Burroughs (b. February 5th): “Desperation is the raw material of drastic change.”
• Don Cherry (b. February 5th): “I think I’m a good Canadian…”
• Alice Cooper (b. February 4th): “Getting drunk & stoned is easy.”
• Rosa Parks (b. February 4th): “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free…”
• Norman Rockwell (b. February 3rd): “The secret is not to look back.”
• James Joyce (b. February 2nd): Literary rogue and male chauvinist
• Shakira (b. February 2nd): “Writing songs has a therapeutic effect.”
• S.J. Perelman (b. February 1st): “All of us have only one personality.”
• Ronda Rousey (b. February 1st): “I’m scared all the time…”
• Michael Hutchence (b. January 22): “To live in a self-made hell of publicity…”
• Sir Francis Bacon (b. January 22): “Imagination was given to man to compensate him…”
• Jeff Koons (b. January 21): “I try to be a truthful artist…”
• David Lynch (b. January 20): “This whole world is wild at heart…”
• Janis Joplin (b. January 19): “On stage, I make love to 25,000 people…”
• Kate Moss (b. January 16): “If I wasn’t a model I would have wanted to be a rock star…”
• Martin Luther King (b. January 15): “Soft-minded men buy spiritual death on the installment plan…”
• Dave Grohl (b. January 14): “My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.”
• January 14th birthday: Faye Dunaway
• Jay McInerney (b. January 13): “There aren’t many shy writers left.”
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus (b. January 13): “If I wrote a book, it would be about hair.”
• Howard Stern (b. January 12): “You’ve got to be a little vicious…”
• Naomi Judd (b. January 11): “A dead end street is a good place to turn around.”
• Mary J. Blige (b. January 11): “You can look at my palm and see the storm coming.”
• George Foreman (b. January 10): “Boxing is like jazz…”
• Jimmy Page (b. January 9th): “My vocation is orchestrating a guitar army.”
• A Small Glimpse into Bowie’s Legacy
• David Bowie (b. January 8th): “I need to be something more than human.”
• Elvis Presley (b. January 8th): “Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.”
• Nicolas Cage (b. January 7th): “There’s a fine line between acting and schizophrenia.”
• Katie Couric (b. January 7th): “I feel like a human pinata…”
• Joan of Arc (b. January 6th): “One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it…”
• Marilyn Manson (b. January 5th): “When wishes are granted, dreams are destroyed.”
• Bradley Cooper (b. January 5th): “Sometimes I look great, other times horrifying.”
• John McLaughlin (b. January 4th): “Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.”
• Michael Stipe (b. January 4th): “I’m just sexual…”
• January 3rd birthday: J.R.R. Tolkien
• Michael Schumacher (b. January 3rd): “Your ups and downs in sports are as normal as daily life…”
• J.D. Salinger (b. January 1st): “I’m a paranoid in reverse…”
• Anthony Hopkins (b. December 31): “I have a punishing workout regimen…”
• Mary Higgins Clark (b. Dec 24): “The first four months of writing the book, I’m scratching with my hands through granite…”
• Frank Zappa (b. December 21): “If you want to get laid, go to college…”
• Uri Geller (b. December 20): “The best part of being a vegan is the peace of mind.”
• Edith Piaf (b. December 19): “Singing is a way of escaping…”
• Keith Richards (b. December 18): “Rock and roll is music for the neck downwards.”
• William Safire (b. December 17): “The right to do something doesn’t mean doing it is right.”
• Billy Gibbons (b. December 16): “The blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.”
• Edna O’Brien (b. December 15): “Writers are always anxious, always on the run…”
• Nostradamus (b. December 14): “Understanding cannot be acquired by the occult, only by aid of the zodiac…”
• Taylor Swift (b. December 13): “I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.”
• Frank Sinatra (b. December 12): “I just wish someone would try to hurt you…”
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (b. December 11): “How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?”
• Emily Dickinson (b. December 10): “The soul should always stand ajar…”
• John Malkovich (b. December 9th): “I don’t want to be boring…”
• Jim Morrison (b. December 8th): “I believe in a prolonged derangement of the senses…”
• Tom Waits (b. December 7th): “Don’t you know there ain’t no devil…”
• Dave Brubeck (b. December 6th): “I’m always hoping for an out-of-body experience…”
• Little Richard (b. December 5th): “I’d like to give my love to everybody…”
• Jay-Z: (b. December 4th): “I’m hungry for knowledge…”
• Joseph Conrad (b. December 3rd): “An artist is a man of action…”
• Lucy Liu (b. December 2nd): “Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny…”
• Candace Bushnell (b. December 1st): “You don’t have to do everything by the time you’re 30.”
• Kala Sarpa: everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask
• Mark Twain (b. November 30): “Go to Heaven for the climate…”
• John Mayall (b. November 29): godfather of the British blues scene
• Randy Newman (b. November 28): “I like the idea of taking a true classic and destroying it!”
• Jimi Hendrix (b. November 27): “Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens.”
• Tina Turner (b. November 26): “I always wanted to make myself a better person…”
• Billy Connolly (b. November 24): “I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities….”
• Miley Cyrus (b. November 23): “I’m kind of bipolar…”
• André Gide (b. November 22): “The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.”
• Rodney Dangerfield (b. November 22): “My mother never breast fed me…”
• Isaac Bashevis Singer (b. November 21): “The waste-paper basket is the writer’s best friend.”
• Bjork (b. November 21): “Part of me is more conservative than people realise…”
• Don DeLillo (b. November 20): “Writers should be dangerous” & other quotes on writing
• Robert F. Kennedy (b. November 20): “Every society gets the criminals it deserves…”
• Larry King (b. November 19): “Nothing I say this day will teach me anything…”
• Margaret Atwood (b. November 18): “Writing is not a job description…”
• Shelby Foote (b. November 17): “Longevity conquers scandal every time.”
• Martin Scorsese (b. November 17): “I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest…”
• Diana Krall (b. November 16): “I work very hard at being the best musician…”
• J.G. Ballard (b. November 15): “Fiction is a branch of neurology” & other quotes
• Georgia O’Keeffe (b. November 15): “I’ve been terrified every moment of my life…”
• Cara Black (b. November 14): “I’m an eavesdropper” & other quotes on writing
• Claude Monet (b. November 14): “Color is my day-long obsession…”