Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it never care for anything else thereafter

~Ernest Hemingway

Ultimately, your theme will find you. You don’t have to go looking for it.

Richard Russo

Happy birthday, Richard Russo! The Pulitzer Prize-winning author wrote his first novel, Mohawk, while working full-time as a college teacher. During breaks between classes, he’d go to a local diner and write.

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I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

Brian Selznick

Happy birthday, Brian Selznick! The award-winning writer and illustrator of The Invention of Hugo Cabret showed signs of artistic brilliance at a very young age. After the family dog ripped the arm off his troll doll, Selznick made a prosthetic replacement limb out of clay.

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A tiger doesn’t proclaim his tigritude, he pounces

Wole Soyinka

Happy birthday, Wole Soyinka! The Nigerian playwright and poet was imprisoned for 22 months during the Nigerian Civil War. His captors refused to provide him pen and paper, but Soyinka somehow managed to write poems, essays, and letters anyway.

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Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

Robert A. Heinlein

Decades before the waterbed was patented and popularized in America, science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (born July 7, 1907) described them in detail in his books.

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