“Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.”
˜Esther Meynell (b. 1878 – d. February 4, 1955)
August
Novels
July
“Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt.
The day as it comes. People as they come…
The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”
~Audrey Hepburn (b. 4 May 1929 – d. 20 January 1993)
June
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
That doesn’t happen much, though.”
~ J.D. Salinger (b. January 1, 1919 – d. January 27, 2010)
May
“I write because there is something I don’t understand, or something that is haunting me. I write to find consolation. I write to discover in things I once found distressing or even unbearable, a beautiful pattern and shape. I write out of love for the people who inspire me. I write to uncover the sublime that rests inside the ordinary tasks and experiences of every day. I write to make my readers smile or even laugh. I write to keep my readers company. I write so that I can say aloud what I’ve been secretly thinking.”
~Finuala Dowling, South African Poet and Writer (b. June 1962)
April
“We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.”
–from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (b. 22 November 1819 – d. 22 December 1880)
Writing
“Without a function, we cease to be.
So, I will write till I die.”
~ Farley Mowat (b. May 12, 1921 – d. May 6, 2014)
September
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
~Haruki Murakami (b. January 12, 1949)
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