“Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.” ― Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock Australian novelist Joan Lindsey was born Joan à Beckett Weigall on November 16, 1896, in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Her father was a judge. Her mother, a musician, was born in Dublin and was the daughter of the Governor… Read More November 16th – Joan Lindsay
“The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself, that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.” ― Neil Gaiman The View From the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-Fiction Neil… Read More November 10th – Neil Gaiman
“I have often noted that it takes the thinnest skin in the world to be a writer, it takes the thickest to seek out publication. But both are needed—the extreme sensitivity and the hippo hide against criticism.” Katherine Paterson Katherine Womeldorf Paterson was born October 31st, 1932, in Qing Jiang, China. Her parents were Presbyterian… Read More October 31st – Katherine Paterson
And cried, ‘He lieth, for his name is Shame,But I am Love, and I was wont to beAlone in this fair garden, till he cameUnasked by night; I am true Love, I fillThe hearts of boy and girl with mutual flame.’Then sighing, said the other, ‘Have thy will,I am the love that dare not speak… Read More October 22 – Lord Alfred Douglas
Daily Inspirations for Writers and Readers 