“Obsession led me to write. It’s been that way with every book I’ve ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.”
~ Anne Rice, b. 4 October 1941
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- Doris Lessing (b. October 22): “We’re always just a step away from lunacy” & other quotes on writing
- Catherine Deneuve (b. October 22): “I like being famous when it’s convenient…”
- Ursula K. Le Guin (b. October 21): “If you have to die, commit suicide” & other quotes on writing
- Kim Kardashian (b. October 21): “I am so stereotyped…”
- Arthur Rimbaud (b. October 20): “Life is the farce we’re all forced to endure.”
- Odd couple birthday (b. October 20): Dr. Joyce Brothers & Snoop Dogg
- John Le Carré (b. October 19): “I use the furniture of espionage to amuse the reader…”
- Chuck Berry (b. October 18): “I grew up thinking art was only pictures…”
- Eminem (b. October 17): “Music is therapeutic for me…”
- Oscar Wilde (b. October 16): “We are all in the gutter…”
- Ed McBain (b. October 15): “It’s a matter of style” & other quotes on writing
- Friedrich Nietzsche (b. October 15): “In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
- Kate Grenville (b. October 14): “Fiction is a lot more than entertainment” & other quotes on writing
- e.e. cummings (b. October 14): “Unless you love someone…”
- Lenny Bruce (b. October 13): “If you can take the hot lead enema…”
- Marina Lewycka (b. October 12): “Comedy can expose the soul” & other quotes on writing
- Aleister Crowley (b. October 12): “I was not content to believe in a personal devil…”
- Elmore Leonard (b. October 11): “Leave out the part readers tend to skip” & 10 other rules of writing
- Harold Pinter (b. October 10): “Language is a trampoline” & other quotes on writing
- David Lee Roth (b. October 10): “The problem with self-improvement….”
- Belva Plain (b. October 9): “Read the best there is and thereby learn.”
- John Lennon (b. October 9): “Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law…”
- Michael Korda (b. October 8): “Finish your first draft and then we’ll talk.”
- Bruno Mars (b. October 8th): “Music is not math…”
- William Zinsser (b. October 7): “Writing is a craft not an art” & other quotes on writing
- Simon Cowell (b. October 7): “Ending the animal trade would leave more time to trap popstar wannabes.”
- Stanley Ellin (b. October 6th): “Crime fiction offers writers infinite diversity of theme & treatment.”
- Thor Heyerdahl (b. October 6th): “It’s rarer to find a happy millionaire than a vagabond…”
- Clive Barker (b. October 5th): “Horror is the wild-dog genre” & other quotes on writing
- Kate Winslet (b. October 5th): “I like exposing myself…”
- Anne Rice (b. October 4th): “Obsession led me to write…”
- Stevie Ray Vaughan (b. October 3rd): “There’s a big lie in this business that it’s okay to go out in flames…”
- Annie Leibovitz (b. October 2nd): “I still need the camera…”
- Zach Galifianakis (b. October 1st): “American society loves to prop people up..”
- Truman Capote (b. September 30): Seven intriguing quotes about writing
- Marc Bolan (b. September 30): “I feel there is a curse on rock stars.”
- Miguel de Cervantes (b. September 29): “Too much sanity may be madness…”
- Naomi Watts (b. September 28): “I’m not this dark, twisted person…”
- Avril Lavigne (b. September 27): “I have to fight to keep my image really me…”
- Serena Williams (b. September 26): “Luck has nothing to do with it…”
- William Faulkner (b. September 25): “I feel like a wet seed…”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. September 24): “Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist…”
- Bruce Springsteen (b. September 23): “It’s a sad man livin’ in his own skin…”
- Andrea Bocelli (b. September 22): “Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you.”
- Stephen King (b. September 21): “We make up horrors to help us cope…”
- Sophia Loren (b. September 20): “A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence…”
- Jeremy Irons (b. September 19): “Sadly, one’s parameters are constantly narrowed…”
- Great Garbo (b. September 18): “Life would be so wonderful if only…”
- Ken Kesey (b. September 17): “The sixties aren’t over…”
- BB King (b. September 16): “We all have idols…”
- Tommy Lee Jones (b. September 15): “Characters with no integrity are interesting…”
- Roald Dahl (b. September 13): “The life of a writer is absolute hell.”
- Jennifer Hudson (b. September 12): “Don’t block your blessings.”
- D.H. Lawrence (b. September 11): “Tragedy is like strong acid…”
- Colin Firth (b. September 10): “I have a kind of physical neutrality…”
- I like to sleep in Sunday mornings…
- Joe Perry (b. September 10): “I want to be the flame the tribe dances around.”
- Hugh Grant (b. September 9): “Women are frightening.”
- Pink (b. September 8th): “The aggressive side of me comes across…”
- Buddy Holly (b. September 7th): “Death is often referred to as a good career move.”
- It’s always better Manhattan style…
- Amazon book review: Parivartana Yoga
- There are three levels of readership…
- Hail, Atlantis!
- The butcher will see you now.
- And even spinach doesn’t help…
- Roger Waters (b. September 6th): “I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing.”
- Bob Newhart (b. September 5th): “Be a child for as long as you can.”
- Freddie Mercury (b. September 5): “I want to lead the Victorian life…”
- Beyoncé Knowles (b. September 4): “I don’t wanna be a hot girl.”
- Salma Hayek (b. September 2nd): “There’s nothing better in life than being a late bloomer.”
- Cameron Diaz (b. August 30): “Your regrets aren’t what you did….”
- Michael Jackson (b. August 29): “The greatest education is watching the masters at work.”
- Jeannette Winterson (b. August 27): 10 Rules for Writing
- Christopher Isherwood (b. August 26): “Life’s not so bad if you have a good physique…”
- Tim Burton (b. August 25): “Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.”
- Jorge Luis Borges (b. August 24): “It is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger.”
- Nelson DeMille (b. August 23): “The problem with doing nothing…”
- Keith Moon (b. August 23): “I can’t believe that person is really me.”
- Kristen Wiig (b. August 22): “It’s dangerous to care what people think.”
- Kim Cattrall (b. August 21): “I prefer younger men.”
- Robert Plant (b. August 20): “The past is a stepping stone…”
- Coco Chanel (b. August 19): “Fashion fades…”
- Roman Polanski (b. August 18): “My films are the expression of momentary desires.”
- Robert DeNiro (b. August 17): “The hardest thing about being famous…”
- Charles Bukowski (b. August 16): “Some people never go crazy…”
- Jennifer Lawrence (b. August 15): “I’d love to have to shave my head.”
- Halle Berry (b. August 14): “My first and only three-way…”
- Alfred Hitchcock (b. August 13): “In films murders are always very clean…”
- Pat Metheny (b. August 12): “The beauty of jazz is that it’s malleable…”
- Steve Wozniak (b. August 11): “Never trust a computer…”
- Suzanne Collins (b. August 10): “I don’t write about adolescence…”
- The Edge (b. August 8): “I’m a musician, not a gunslinger.”
- Gillian Anderson (b. August 8th): “Our paths are drawn for us…”
- Charlize Theron (b. August 7th): “I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.”
- Andy Warhol (b. August 6th): “Sex is more exciting on the screen…”
- Neil Armstrong (b. August 5th): “Science hasn’t yet mastered prophecy.”
- Denis Lehane (b. August 4th): “Narrative makes sense of chaos.”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (b. August 4): “Poetry is a mirror…”
- Martha Stewart (b. August 3rd): “When you’re through changing, you’re through.”
- Wes Craven (b. August 2nd): “The first monster… is yourself.”
- Jerry Garcia (b. August 1st): “I’m shopping around for something…”
- J. K. Rowling (b. July 31): “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”
- Emily Bronte (b. July 30): “If I could I’d always work in silence…”
- Geddy Lee (b. July 29): “I’m a big believer of daylight…”
- Marcel Duchamp (b. July 28): “I am forced to contradict myself…”
- Jack Higgins (b. July 27): “You’ve got to be obsessive, spend enormous effort and still get nowhere.”
- Mick Jagger (b. July 26): “It’s all right letting yourself go…”
- Matt LeBlanc (b. July 25): “I’m much more low-key…”
- Alexandre Dumas (b. July 24): “Work may be finished, education never.”
- Amelia Earhart (b. July 24): “The most difficult thing is the decision to act…”
- Raymond Chandler (b. July 23): “The most durable thing in writing is style…”
- Tom Robbins (b. July 22): “The most important novels are like coyotes…”
- Don Henley (b. July 22): “A man with a briefcase can steal millions…”
- Robin Williams (b. July 21): “You’re only given a little spark of madness…”
- Ernest Hemingway (b. July 21): “We are all apprentices…”
- Cormac McCarthy (b. July 20): “I’m not interested in writing short stories.”
- Brian May (b. July 19): “The guitar has a kind of grit…”
- Hunter S. Thompson (b. July 18): “America – 200 million used car salesmen with money to buy guns…”
- Angela Merkel (b. July 17): “The question is not whether we are able to change…”
- Stewart Copeland (b. July 16): “The music market is in the hands of fascists.”
- Arianna Huffington (b. July 15): “Most people no longer believe in an afterlife.”
- Ingmar Bergman (b. July 14): “Film goes directly to our feelings, down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
- Gustav Klimt (b. July 14): “All art is erotic.”
- Harrison Ford (b. July 13): “I rarely play a real person…”
- Buckminster Fuller (b. July 12): “Everyone is born a genius.”
- Lil Kim (b. July 11): “I haven’t had sex in eight months.”
- Sofia Vergara (b. July 10): “I’m fearless, I don’t complain.”
- Nikola Tesla (b. July 10): “The spread of civilization is like a fire…”
- Jack White (b. July 9): “I don’t like to take the easy way out.”
- Beck (b. July 8): “I don’t have enough hair to be a genius.”
- Robert Heinlein (b. July 7th): “Women and cats do as they please.”
- Dalai Lama (b. July 6th): “I don’t judge the universe.”
- When all the planets align…
- Loves to drink, loves to dance…
- Jean Cocteau (b. July 5th): “When I write, I disturb.”
- Life is unbearable…
- Having a great vacation on Neptune…
- Ann Landers (b. July 4): “One out of four people is mentally unbalanced.”
- With my new binoculars…
- She was a sloppy kisser…
- Dirty deeds done dirt cheap…
- Gone fishing…
- Franz Kafka (b. July 3): “Writing is utter solitude…”
- “Memories don’t always soften with time…”
- Hermann Hesse (b. July 2nd): “When dealing with the insane, pretend to be sane.”
- Happy Canada Day!
- My coffin or yours…?
- They want to make me go to rehab…
- Princess Diana (b. July 1): “They say it’s better to be poor and happy…”
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