Dylan Thomas was born on 27 October 1914:

Dylan Thomas by Jessica Dismorr, 1935.
Dylan Thomas was born on 27 October 1914:

Dylan Thomas by Jessica Dismorr, 1935.
…the poet Marianne Moore.

Marianne Moore by George Platt Lynes, 1 February 1935.
“I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of fabric is governed by gravity.”-Marianne Moore

Gertrude Stein at 3

Gertrude Stein by Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1913

Gertrude Stein on the cover of the 11 September 1933 issue of TIME Magazine
Gertrude Stein: 3 February 1874-27 July 1946

George Gissing Writing
“The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.”-George Gissing
P. G. Wodehouse was born on 15 October 1881:

P.G. Wodehouse, circa 1904.
I love this sheet music from The Riviera Girl, a play written by P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton:

The Riviera Girl, 1917.
“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”-Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary

Portrait of Virginia Woolf by Roger Fry. Circa 1917.
There isn’t a better book to read in October than Virginia Woolf’s A Writer’s Diary. Oh, it is extraordinary (in the full pulse of the word)!
“There’s no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.”-Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary
The struggle to harness one’s creativity is universal and timeless. It’s a constant fight. Battle on, friends!
“If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.”-Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau, 1923. (Died 11 October 1963).

La Belle Iseult by William Morris (died 3 October 1896). 1858.
“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”-Thomas Wolfe (born 3 October 1900), You Can’t Go Home Again