My heavy throbber’s itchin’…
27 Jun
“My heavy throbber’s itchin’ just to lay a solid rhythm down…” ~ Parachute Woman, The Rolling Stones
Helen Keller (b. June 27): “It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”
27 Jun
“It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.”
~ Helen Keller, b. 27 June 1880
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Vera Wang (b. June 27): “Don’t be afraid to take time to learn.”
27 Jun
“Don’t be afraid to take time to learn. It’s good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.”
~ Vera Wang, b. 27 June 1949
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Chris Isaak (b. June 26): “The more hurtin’ the music was, the better it made me feel.”
26 Jun
“The more hurtin’ the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin’ the blues myself, but I’m writing them for other people who have a hard life.”
~ Chris Isaak, b. 26 June 1956
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George Orwell (b. June 25): “Big Brother is watching you.”
25 Jun
“BIG BROTHER is watching you.”
~ George Orwell, b. 25 June 1903
Duffy (b. June 23): “I think music is the only thing that I’ll ever really have.”
23 Jun
“I think music is the only thing that I’ll ever really have.”
~ Duffy, b. 23 June 1984
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Saul Bellow (b. June 10): “A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.”
10 Jun
Saul Bellow (born 10 June 1915, died 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer. Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times.
Quotes on writing:
- A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
- A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.
- People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
- A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
- I’ve discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgement and to say in his heart of hearts, “To hell with you.”
- With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you’ve fallen into good hands – someone from whom you can accept the anaesthetic with confidence.
- A writer should be able to express himself easily, naturally, copiously in a form that frees his mind, his energies. Why should he hobble himself with formalities?
- You become a writer because you’re convinced that you have a grip on reality of a certain distinctive kind. It belongs to you and to others who share such a recognition.
- When I finish something, I generally put it on the shelf, and I very seldom look at it unless somebody mentions it to me, and then I open the book, and I read it, and I say, “Did I do that?”
Allen Ginsberg (b. June 3rd): “Whoever controls media images, controls culture.”
3 Jun
“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.”
~ Allen Ginsberg, b. 3 June 1926
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