Martin Cruz Smith (b. November 3): “The research is the most interesting part…”

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• 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…”
• Robert Louis Stevenson (b. November 13): “Always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in…”
• Jimmy Kimmel (b. November 13): “I don’t really need to be dirty…”
• Roland Barthes (b. November 12): “Language is a skin” & other obsessions
• Neil Young (b. November 12): “I have no other talent…”
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (b. November 11): “Pain and suffering are inevitable.”
• Demi Moore (b. November 11): “I don’t like to take my clothes off.”
• Neil Gaiman (b. November 10): “You get ideas from being bored” & other quotes on writing
• Richard Burton (b. November 10): “An actor is something less than a man…”
• Janet Fitch (b. November 9): “Kill the cliché” & other writing tips
• Anne Sexton (b. November 9): “The feeling after writing a poem is better than sex…”
• Bonnie Raitt (b. November 8): “Religion is for people scared to go to hell…”
• Albert Camus (b. November 7): “Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth” & other quotes on writing
• Emma Stone (b. November 6): “Number one is the importance of honesty…”
• Sam Shepard (b. November 5): “Without writing I’d feel completely useless” & other quotes on writing
• Roy Rogers (b. November 5): “They’re making pictures I wouldn’t want Trigger to see…”
• Sean Diddy Combs (b. November 4): “It’s okay to be crazy, but don’t be insane.”
• Martin Cruz Smith (b. November 3): “The research is the most interesting part…”
• K.D. Lang (b. November 2): “I think my voice is a few lifetimes old…”
• Lyle Lovett (b. November 1): “It’s easier to write about things that are problematic…”
• Neal Stephenson (b. October 31): “A good SF universe has coherence” & other quotes on writing
• John Keats (b. October 31): “My imagination is a monastery…”
• Ezra Pound (b. October 30): “We should read for power.”
• Timothy Findley (b. October 30): “Art was meant to be dangerous.”
• Lee Child (b. October 29): “Writing is show business for shy people” & other quotes
• Julia Roberts (b. October 28): “The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be.”
• John Cleese (b. October 27): “Comedy works best when it is mean-spirited.”
• Marisha Pessl, (b. October 26): “Some stories you should run from” & other quotes on writing
• Hillary Clinton (b. October 26): “The American people are tired of liars…”
• Katy Perry (b. October 25): “Fame is just a disgusting by-product of what I do.”
• Drake (b. October 24): “I’m mischievous, but I’m calculated.”
• Michael Crichton (b. October 23): “Books aren’t written – they’re rewritten.”
• Ryan Reynolds (b. October 23): “Acting has given me a way to channel my angst…”
• 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
• 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…”
• Alafair Burke (b. October 16): “The best crime novels are based on people keeping secrets.”
• 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…”
• 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
• David Lee Roth (b. October 10): “The problem with self-improvement….”
• Bruno Mars (b. October 8th): “Music is not math…”
• 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…”
• 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…”
• Amy Winehouse (b. September 14): “I like pin-up girls…”
• 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…”
• Joe Perry (b. September 10): “I want to be the flame the tribe dances around.”
• Colin Firth (b. September 10): “I have a kind of physical neutrality…”
• Hugh Grant (b. September 9): “Women are frightening.”
• Peter Sellers (b. September 8): “There is no me.”
• 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.”
• Roger Waters (b. September 6th): “I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing.”
• Michael Jackson (b. August 29): “The greatest education is watching the masters at work.”
• Robertson Davies (b. August 28): “Authors like cats.”
• Shania Twain (b. August 28): “Life unravels the way it does…”
• Jeanette 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.”
• Alexander McCall Smith (b. August 24): “A life without stories would be no life at all.”
• 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.”
• Edward Norton (b. August 18): “I relate to a character in terms of arc…”
• 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…”
• Charles Baudelaire (b. April 9th): “Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us.”
• 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.”
• 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.”
• Maya Rudolph (b. July 27): “I still have a fantasy…”
• 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…”
• 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…”
• Nelson Mandela (b. July 18): “We must use time wisely…”
• 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.”
• Diane Kruger (b. July 15): “I don’t want to let my life as a woman pass me by.”
• 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.”
• Sofia Vergara (b. July 10): “I’m fearless, I don’t complain.”
• Jack White (b. July 9): “I don’t like to take the easy way out.”
• Nikola Tesla (b. July 10): “The spread of civilization is like a fire…”