• Hermann Hesse died on 8/9/1962. “Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.”
• Louise Bogan was born on 8/11/1897. “Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.”
• Edith Wharton died on 8/11/1937. “Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.”
• William Blake died on 8/12/1827. “A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”
• Mary Roberts Rinehart was born on 8/12/1876. “The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer’s life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.”
• Radclyffe Hall was born on 8/12/1880. “The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.”-The Well of Loneliness
• Helen Hunt Jackson died on 8/12/1885. “Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what’s in a name?
• Thomas Mann died on 8/12/1955. “A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

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