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A WRITER'S WIT: H. G. WELLS

9/21/2023

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
​H. G. Wells
Author of ​The Time Machine
​Born September 21, 1866
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Coming Next:
FRI: My Book World | Rachel Louise Snyder, ​Women We Buried, Women We Burned

TUES: A Writer's Wit | Jane Smiley
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | Grazia Deledda
THURS: A Writer's Wit | Christopher Buckley
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A WRITER'S WIT: ANNE MEARA

9/20/2023

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I started to respect older actors when I was young and then contemporary actors later on. Then I learned respect for comedy. When I was first doing theatre, I thought of it as just a means to become Sarah Bernhardt or someone like that. But acting with young people has been a great learning experience.
​Anne Meara,  Actor and Comedian
Starred in TV's The King of Queens
Born September 20, 1929
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Coming Next:
THURS: A Writer's Wit | Mark Levin
FRI: My Book World | Rachel Louise Snyder, ​Women We Buried, Women We Burned
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A WRITER'S WIT: RACHEL FIELD

9/19/2023

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No hardy perennial has the enduring quality of hope. Cut it to the roots, stamp it underfoot, let frost and fire work their will, and still some valiant shoot will push, to grow again on such scanty fare as it can find. Only time and the cruel quicklime of fact can destroy that stubborn urgency.
​Rachel Field
Author of Hitty: Her First Hundred Years
​Born September 19, 1894
Coming Next:
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | Anne Meara

THURS: A Writer's Wit | H. G. Wells
FRI: My Book World | Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We 
Burned 
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WEBSITE UPDATE

9/18/2023

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I meant to observe this website's 10th anniversary in 2021, but the Covid pandemic seemed to put the kibosh on that for a number of reasons. If you have time, feel free to browse the six tabs or pages by clicking on the links below. Each one sports a new look and updated information. 
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Thanks for helping me celebrate 12 years online! RJ
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A WRITER'S WIT: ANNE BERNAYS

9/14/2023

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I can't remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep. Nice writing isn't enough. It isn't enough to have smooth and pretty language.
​Anne Bernays
Author of The Man on the Third Floor
​Born September 14, 1930
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Coming Next:
FRI: My Book World | Michael Ventura, If I Was a Highway

TUES: A Writer's Wit | Rachel Field
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | Anne Meara
THURS: A Writer's Wit | Mark Levin
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A WRITER'S WIT: JUDITH MARTIN

9/13/2023

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When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation.
​Judith Martin [Miss Manners]
Author of Miss Manners Minds Your Business
Born September 13, 1938
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Coming Next:
THURS: A Writer's Wit | Anne Bernays
FRI: My Book World | Michael Ventura, If I Was a Highway
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A WRITER'S WIT: ANNA DOSTOYEVSKAYA

9/12/2023

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From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.
​Anna Dostoyevskaya, Spouse of F. Dostoevksy
Author of Dostoevsky: Reminiscences

​Born September 12, 1846
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Coming Next:
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | Judith Martin

THURS: A Writer's Wit | Anne Bernays
FRI: My Book World | Michael Ventura, If I Was a Highway
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A WRITER'S WIT: DAVID LEVITHAN

9/7/2023

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My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published—just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.
​David Levithan
Author of ​Two Boys Kissing
​Born September 7, 1972
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Coming Next:
FRI: My Book World | Julie 
Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
TUES: A Writer's Wit | Anna Dostoyevskaya
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | Judith Martin
THURS: A Writer's Wit | Anne Bernays
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A WRITER'S WIT: JENNIFER EGAN

9/6/2023

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The bottom line is that I like my first drafts to be blind, unconscious, messy efforts; that's what gets me the best material.
​Jennifer Egan
Author of ​The Candy House
​Born September 6, 1962
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Coming Next:
THURS: A Writer's Wit | David Levithan
FRI: My Book World | Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
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A WRITER'S WIT: YEVGENIA ALBATS

9/5/2023

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Any authoritarian regime, having suppressed normal political conditions, will find itself in need of internal and external enemies, someone to blame for peoples' misfortunes.
​Yevgenia Albats, Journalist
Author of Bureaucrats and Russian Transition: Politics of Accommodation

Born September 5, 1958
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Coming Next:
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | Jennifer Egan

THURS: A Writer's Wit | David Levithan
FRI: My Book World | Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic
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A WRITER'S WIT: WILLIAM SAROYAN

8/31/2023

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If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is then no longer a thief.
​William Saroyan, Playwright
Author of ​The Human Comedy
​Born August 31, 1908
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Coming Next:
FRI: My Book World | Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

TUES: A Writer's Wit | Yevgenia Albats
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | Jennifer Egan
THURS: A Writer's Wit | David Levithan
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A WRITER'S WIT: MOLLY IVINS

8/30/2023

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Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful. 
​Molly Ivins
Author of ​Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America
​Born August 30, 1944
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Coming Next:
THURS: A Writer's Wit | William Saroyan
FRI: My Book World | Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry
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A WRITER'S WIT: MATT BELL

8/29/2023

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Why aren't these fantasy novels on display somewhere in my house, where there are a thousand-plus other books stacked across a dozen bookshelves? Because bookshelves do more than just hold up our books. They speak to how we see ourselves, and more obviously how we want others to see us. This is a part of my makeup I don't always show.
​Matt Bell
Author of ​Appleseed: A Novel
Born August 29, 1980
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Coming Next:
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | Molly Ivins

THURS: A Writer's Wit | William Saroyan
FRI: My Book World | Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry
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A WRITER'S WIT: Stephen Fry

8/24/2023

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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
​Stephen Fry
Author of 
Troy: The Siege of Troy Retold
Born August 24, 1957
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Coming Next:
FRI: My Book World |
Ani Kayode Somtochukwu​, And Then He Sang a Lullaby​
TUES: A Writer's Wit | Matt Bell
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | Molly Ivins
THURS: A Writer's Wit | William Saroyan
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A Writer's Wit: Merrie Spaeth

8/23/2023

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We reinvent ourselves to solve a client’s problem. It’s more than just tweaking. It’s rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn’t that what great actors constantly do?
​Merrie Spaeth, Public Relations &
​    Communications
​Born August 23, 1948
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Coming Next:
THURS: A Writer's Wit | Stephen Fry
FRI: My Book World | 
Ani Kayode Somtochukwu​, And Then He Sang a Lullaby
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A WRITER'S WIT: Dorothy Parker

8/22/2023

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I’d like to have money. And I’d like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.
​Dorothy Parker—Poet, Writer, Critic, Satirist
Author of "Big Blonde," Short Story
​Born August 22, 1893
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Coming Next:
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | Merrie Spaeth

THURS: A Writer's Wit | Stephen Fry
FRI: My Book World | 
Ani Kayode Somtochukwu, ​And Then He Sang a Lullaby​
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A Writer's Wit: Jonathan Franzen

8/17/2023

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I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then . . . it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.
​Jonathan Franzen
Author of ​Crossroads
​Born August 17, 1959
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Coming Next:
FRI: My Book World | Pat Conroy, ​The Great Santini

TUES: A Writer's Wit | Dorothy Parker
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | Merrie Spaeth
THURS: A Writer's Wit | Stephen Fry
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A Writer's Wit: George Stroumboulopoulos

8/16/2023

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Guns are part of the Constitution, and no one is willing to have that tough conversation with Congress and the Senate and the president to say maybe that's got to change. People talk about it—but I mean actual change.
George Stroumboulopoulos,
Canadian Media Personality
Host of The Hour,
​Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
​Born August 16, 1972
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Coming Next:
THURS: A Writer's Wit | Jonathan Franzen
FRI: My Book World | Pat Conroy, ​The Great Santini
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A Writer's Wit: Linda Ellerbee

8/15/2023

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If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?
​Linda Ellerbee, Journalist
Author of Take Big Bites: Adventures Around the World and Across the Table
​Born August 15, 1944

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Coming Next:
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | William Kennedy

THURS: A Writer's Wit | Jonathan Franzen
FRI: My Book World | Pat Conroy, The Great Santini
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A Writer's Wit: Mark Doty

8/10/2023

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A poem needs to be orderly enough to hold our attention, to make us feel that we are being guided through the exhibition, and needs to leave room for slippage and surprise, for those productive disruptions that characterize the real.
​Mark Doty,  Poet
Author: 
What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life
​Born August 10, 1953
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Coming Next:
FRI: My Book World | Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

TUES: A Writer's Wit | Linda Ellerbee
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | William Kennedy
THURS: A Writer's Wit | Jonathan Franzen
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A Writer's Wit: Barbara Delinsky

8/9/2023

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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer,  I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
​Barbara Delinsky
Author of ​A Week at the Shore
​Born August 9, 1945
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Coming Next:
THURS: A Writer's Wit | Mark Doty
FRI: My Book World | Jhumpa Lahiri, ​Whereabouts
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A Writer's Wit: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

8/8/2023

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It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.
​Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Author of ​The Yearling
​Born August 8, 1896
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Coming Next:
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | Barbara Delinsky

THURS: A Writer's Wit | Mark Doty
FRI: My Book World | Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts
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A Writer's Wit: Amy CLampitt

6/15/2023

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Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
​Amy Clampitt, Poet
Author of What the Light Was Like
​Born June 15, 1920
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Coming Next:
FRI: My Book World |
Colm Tóibín, The Magician
TUES: A Writer's Wit | Lillian Hellman
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | Ian McEwan
THURS: A Writer's Wit | Adam Schiff
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A Writer's Wit: Jerzy Kosinski

6/14/2023

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Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
​Jerzy Kosinski
Author of ​The Painted Bird
​Born June 14, 1933
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J. Kosinski
Coming Next:
THURS: A Writer's Wit | Amy Clampitt
FRI: My Book World | 
Colm Tóibín, The Magician
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A Writer's Wit: FAnny Burney

6/13/2023

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How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts—I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if a stranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious—insolent and whimsical I must appear!—one moment flighty and half mad—the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.
​Fanny Burney
Author of Camilla
Born June 13, 1752
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Coming Next:
WEDS: A Writer's Wit | Jerzy Kosincki

THURS: A Writer's Wit | Amy Clampitt
FRI: My Book World | 
Colm Tóibín, The Magician
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