Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season
and the very best for 2017!
Writer Quotes
William Trevor
“I get melancholy if I don’t [write]. I need the company of people who don’t exist.”
— William Trevor
(Born May 24, 1928 – Died November 21, 2016)
William Trevor was one of my favourite writers, both of short stories and novels. His 2002 novel, The Story of Lucy Gault, has never left me.
Oh 2016…
I don’t want to write another post dedicated to brilliant talent we have lost.
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
(Born 1934 – Died 2016)
Another legend gone.
Edgar Allan Poe
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
— Edgar Allan Poe (b. 1809 – d. 1849)
Bob Dylan, Living Legend
Great news for poets and songwriters!
Bob Dylan wins the Nobel for Literature.
“It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it’s like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don’t.”
— Bob Dylan
Anna Dewdney, Children’s Author and Illustrator
(Born December 25, 1965 – Died September 3, 2016 Aged 50)
“When we read with a child, we are doing so much more than teaching him to read or instilling in her a love of language,” she wrote. “We are doing something that I believe is just as powerful, and it is something that we are losing as a culture: by reading with a child, we are teaching that child to be human. When we open a book, and share our voice and imagination with a child, that child learns to see the world through someone else’s eyes.”
Virginia Woolf
“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
— Virginia Woolf
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