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.
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!
Plath. Ibsen. Woolf.
Dickinson.
Bloomsbury. Chekhov.
Millay.
Modernism. Tolstoy.
And Charles Chaplin.
Etc.
What are you reading this month?
“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).

Ted Hughes Quote

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
E.B. White died on 1 October 1985:

E.B. White, whilst at Cornell University
“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.”-E.B. White
Miguel de Cervantes is believed to have been born on this day in 1547.

Miguel de Cervantes Google Doodle
Although it’s as basic as it sounds, this (free) Jane Austen Quote of the Day app is everything:

The Jane Austen Quote App on my phone.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1921