Great artists have no country.
​Alfred de Musset
Born December 11, 1810

The thing about having a very young audience in the theatre is that sometimes they laugh at the bullying scenes. It's really interesting, what that means. It still confuses me slightly, you know; someone's getting quite brutally bullied on stage and people are laughing. I think it's very hard being young.
​Jack Thorne
Born December 6, 1978

We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past seventy years.
​Grace Napolitano
Born December 4, 1936

I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with the world around them. I realized this is how I am all day; for me, unlike other people, there doesn't come a moment after a cup of coffee or a shower or whatever when I suddenly feel alive and awake and connected to the world. If it were always breakfast, I would be fine.
​Peter Cameron
​Born on November 29, 1959

I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be written and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon.
​David Rakoff
​Born on November 27, 1964

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
​André Gide
Born November 22,1869

Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.
​Selma Lagerlöf
Born on November 20, 1858

It is my belief that I have informed myself of nearly all works of art in the known world . . . . I have heard most of the music of the world, and seen nearly all the paintings.
​Sacheverell Sitwell
Born on November 15, 1897

Society has a hyper emphasis on thin, and that trend comes from the consumers—it does not come from the fashion industry. The fashion industry needs to make money; that's what we do. If people said, “We want a 300 pound purple person,” the first industry to do it would be fashion.
​Kelly Cutrone
Born on November 13, 1965

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining . . . . Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
​Martha Gellhorn
Born on November 8, 1908

Progress would be wonderful—if only it would stop.
​Robert Musil
​Born on November 6, 1880

These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories, all with ignorance, indifference, or half-witted hatred, moving the world with the strength of their arms, and getting their heads knocked together in the name of God, the king, or the stock exchange-immortal, dreaming, hopeless asses, who surrender their reason to the care of a shining puppet, and persuade some toy to carry their lives in his purse.
​Stephen Crane
Born November 1, 1871

A WRITER'S WIT
Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.
Maud Hart Lovelace
Born April 25, 1892  Mankato, Minnesota
Died March 11, 1980  Claremont, California

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
​Paul Valéry
​Born October 30, 1871

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life—duties, intellect, accomplishment—and see that most of it is nonsense.
​Harold Brodkey
Born October 25, 1930

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.
​Ntozake Shange
Born October 18, 1948

What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.​
Irvine Welsh
Born on September 27, 1961

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you.
​Shel Silverstein
Born September 25, 1935

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.
​George R. R. Martin
Born September 20, 1948

Universities should be about more than developing work skills. They must also be about producing civic-minded and critically engaged citizens—citizens who can engage in debate, dialogue and bear witness to a different and critical sense of remembering, agency, ethics and collective resistance.
​Henry Giroux
Born September 18, 1943

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.
​Tom Holt
Born September 13, 1961

Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
​Camilla Läckberg 
Born August 30, 1974

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
​Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Born August 28, 1749

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.​
Arthur Adamov
Born August 23, 1908

Life is a means of extracting fiction. 
​Robert Stone
​Born August 21, 1937