“You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.”–Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway on Good Stuff
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Category Archives: Dead Writers
A Contemplative Ellen Glasgow
I love both the quiet, contemplative quality of this photo of the American novelist and the layered textures/patterns of the various fabrics.
Ellen Glasgow
William Godwin on Reading
William Godwin Quote
Happy Birthday, Edward Gorey!
Edward Gorey was born on 22 February 1925:
Edward Gorey Quote
Happy Birthday, Dorothy Canfield Fisher!
The extremely accomplished Dorothy Canfield Fisher was born on 17 February 1879.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Selected books: Gunhild (1907); The Bent Twig (1915); Understood Betsy (1917); Raw Material (1923); Bonfire (1933); Seasoned Timber (1939).
[Writers in Art] William Butler Yeats
I’m sharing this (again?), because W. B. Yeats is on my mind today.
William Butler Yeats by John Singer Sargent, 1908
[Alternative Muses] Birthday Mashup: Charles Dickens/Sinclair Lewis/Laura Ingalls Wilder/Gay Talese
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”-Charles Dickens (born 7 February 1812)
Sinclair Lewis (born 7 February 1885) by Arnold Genthe, 7 March 1914
And:
Laura Ingalls Wilder (born 7 February 1867), circa 1885
“I am a documentarian of what I do.”-Gay Talese (born 7 February 1932)
P.G. Wodehouse on the Ideal Life
P.G. Wodehouse quote
The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Walter Bagehot
- Name: Walter Bagehot
- D/O/B: 3 February 1826
- Member Since: 1866
- Status: Charter Member
- Important Role: Economics Adviser
- Hobbies: Philosophy; Mathematics; staring wistfully into space
Walter Bagehot
Because I Will Never Grow Tired of This Photo of Edna St. Vincent Millay…
It is from 1914, when she was on the cusp of every possibility:
Edna St. Vincent Millay by Arnold Genthe, 1914
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 