“Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.”
Joan Didion (b. December 5, 1934 – d. December 23, 2021)
Writer Quotes
Closing of the Year
“December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.”
~ Fennel Hudson, British author
Halloween
“Halloween shadows played upon the walls of the houses. In the sky the Halloween moon raced in and out of the clouds. The Halloween wind was blowing, not a blasting of wind but a right-sized swelling, falling, and gushing of wind. It was a lovely and exciting night, exactly the kind of night Halloween should be.”
~ Eleanor Estes, American children’s author (b. May 9, 1906 – d. July 15, 1988)
Late Summer
“To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it.
It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall.”
~ Ann Patchett (b. December 2, 1963)
Shel Silverstein
“Do a loony-goony dance, ‘cross the kitchen floor, put something silly in the world that ain’t been there before.”
—Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic (b. Sept. 25, 1930 – d. May 10, 1999)
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.”
TED Talk – What Makes a Bestseller?
Crank the volume on your computer! The sound on this video is very low, but Jonny Geller, literary agent and joint CEO of Curtis Brown, brings up some interesting points.
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