A WRITER'S WIT
When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.
Denton Welch
Author of ​In Youth Is Pleasure
Born March 29, 1915

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Author of ​The Feast of the Goat
Born March 28, 1936

But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write. It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.
​Julia Alvarez
Author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Born March 27, 1950

The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game. The man is not “taking” and the woman is not “giving.” No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. [Fear of Flying]
Erica Jong
Author of Fear of Flying
Born March 26, 1942 

A WRITER'S WIT
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
​Harriet Tubman March
Former slave,  Abolitionist
​Born March 22, 1822

Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.
​Thomas Frank
Author of What's the Matter with Kansas?
Born March 21, 1965

Maybe that’s what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all.
​Emily Giffin
Author of All We Ever Wanted 
Born March 20, 1972

There are lots of big books that have gay characters—or, more commonly, a gay character—in secondary roles, but seldom are their lives, and especially their sexual lives, on center stage.
​Garth Greenwell
Author of Cleanness
Born March 19, 1978

A WRITER'S WIT
How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.
​Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice, 1993-2020
Author of My Own Words
​Born March 15, 1933

I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you can be a good person in many ways. And I think you often have to be careful that prayer can seem superficial, because it's a very complicated thing to love your neighbor as yourself.
​Horton Foote, Playwright
Author of The Trip to Bountiful
Born March 14, 1916

By Jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.
​Janet Flanner
Author of Paris Was Yesterday
Born March 13, 1892 

A play is fiction—and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
​Edward Albee
Author of Three Tall Women
Born March 12, 1928

A WRITER'S WIT
For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
Stuart Chase
Author of The Tyranny of Words
Born March 8, 1888

Having a mother who had been an aeronautical engineer convinced me that more things should be open to women.
​Elizabeth Moon
Author of 
​Born March 7, 1945

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
​Gabriel García Márquez
Author of Love in the Time of Cholera
Born March 6, 1927

The American public has difficulty believing . . .  [that] injustice continues to be inflicted upon Indian people because Americans assume that the sympathy and tolerance they feel toward Indians is somehow “felt” or transferred to the government policy that deals with Indians. This is not the case.
​Leslie Marmon Silko
Author of Ceremony
Born March 5, 1948