Simone de Beauvoir was born on 9 January 1908.
Simone de Beauvoir as a child
Simone de Beauvoir Quote
Happy Birthday, Simone!
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Happy Birthday, Zora Neale Hurston!
Zora Neale Hurston was born on 7 January 1891.
Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”-Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
Know a Writer? Read This
How to survive a relationship with a writer
Words of Wisdom. Courtesy of writerswrite.co.za
The Dead Writers Round-Up: 6th January
- Fanny Burney died on 1/6/1840. “Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.” (Evelina; Cecilia; Camilla; The Wanderer)
- Carl Sandburg was born on 1/6/1878. “Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.” (Chicago Poems; Abraham Lincoln: The War Years; Remembrance Rock; Rootabaga Stories)
- Kahlil Gibran was born on 1/6/1883. “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” (Broken Wings; The Prophet)
- Alan Watts was born on 1/6/1915. “Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.” (The Way of Zen; The Joyous Cosmology; The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are)
Frances Burney by Edward Francesco Burney, 1782
Carl Sandburg, 1940-1946
A Young Kahlil Gibran
A Young Alan Watts
Writers Writing: Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell
Some Creative Goals for the New Year: Seven
No Limits or Restraints
The Dead Writers Round-Up: Two For the Road/Camus and Eliot
“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”-Albert Camus (died on 4 January 1960)
Albert Camus, 1957
“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”-T.S. Eliot (died on 4 January 1965)
T.S. Eliot
The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Henrik Ibsen
- Name: Henrik Ibsen
- DOB: 3/20/1828
- Member Since: 1864
- Status: Charter Member
- Important Role: Head of entertainment committee.
- Hobbies: Exposing hypocrisy; modernizing theatre; shocking bourgeois sensibilities; landscaping the wild expanse of his beard.
Henrik Ibsen, circa 1864
Some Creative Goals for the New Year: Three, Four
Set Specific Goals
Remain Open
Some Creative Goals for the New Year: One, Two
Write More
Read!
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