“Girls are always running through my mind. They don’t dare walk.”
~ Andy Gibb, b. 5 March 1958
Khaled Hosseini (b. March 4th): “Literary fiction is kept alive by women…”
4 Mar
“Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.”
~ Khaled Hosseini, b. 4 March 1965
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Chaz Bono (b. March 4th): “Gender’s between your ears, not between your legs.”
4 Mar
“Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.”
~ Chaz Bono, b. 4 March 1969
Ralph Ellison (b. March 1st): “Writing requires plunging back into the shadow of the past…”
1 Mar
“The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.”
~ Ralph Ellison, b. 1 March 1914
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Javier Bardem (b. March 1st): “I don’t see this heart-throb thing.”
1 Mar
“Really, I don’t see this heart-throb thing at all.”
~ Javier Bardem, b. 1 March 1969
Brian Jones (b. February 28): “We piss anywhere, man.”
28 Feb
“We piss anywhere, man.”
~ Brian Jones, b. 28 February 1942
Astrological sex paradox
27 Feb
Astrological sex paradox
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Alan Annand is a writer and astrologer. His NEW AGE NOIR crime novels (Scorpio Rising, Felonious Monk, Soma County) feature astrologer and palmist Axel Crowe, whom one reviewer has dubbed “Sherlock Holmes with a horoscope.” (Websites: http://www.sextile.com, http://www.navamsa.com.)
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Elizabeth George (b. February 26): “I have to know the killer…”
26 Feb
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Elizabeth George, born 26 February 1949, is an American author of mystery novels set in Great Britain. 11 of her novels have been adapted for television by the BBC as The Inspector Lynley Mysteries.
Quotes on writing:
- It is the job of the novelist to touch the reader.
- I wish that I’d known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn’t have found it so frightening to write.
- I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can’t be taught. Frankly, I don’t understand this point of view.
- I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.
- Essentially and most simply put, plot is what the characters do to deal with the situation they’re in. It’s a logical sequence of events that grow from an initial incident that alters the status quo of the characters.
- Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first… You can’t do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.
- Lots of people want to have written; they don’t want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.
Victor Hugo (b. February 26): “Sorrow is a fruit…”
26 Feb
“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
~ Victor Hugo, b. 26 February 1802
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Johnny Cash (b. February 26): “Success is worrying about everything except money.”
26 Feb
“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.”
~ Johnny Cash, b. 26 February 1932
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