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