Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer
Source: Court Duel
Quoted in The Independent, Sunday 17 October 2010
Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer
Source: Court Duel
“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: The Witch Of Portobello
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Giacomo Casanova (1725–1798) Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894)
Context: My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it. It is only necessary to have courage, for strength without self-confidence is useless. I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy. But, by way of compensation, dire misfortune has befallen me in consequence of actions prompted by the most cautious wisdom. This would humble me; yet conscious that I had acted rightly I would easily derive comfort from that conviction.
Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma (1813–1846) Maharajah of Travencore
V. K. Subramanian (2013), in 101 Mystics of India, p. 181 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=_uswAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA181
Hayley Williams (1988) American singer-songwriter and musician
Interview about her highschool years with the 'Sugar' magazine http://www.omgmusic.com/news/hayley-williams-girls-at-school-called-me-gay
Mark Tully (1935) British journalist
When he quit BBC due to differences with John Birt, the Director General of BBC. <br class="br">Source: Peter Victor, " Tully quits BBC http://www.independent.co.uk/news/tully-quits-bbc-1412865.html," The Independent, 10 July 1994
Karl Freund (1890–1969) German film director and cinematographer
Filming The Lucy Show (December 1953)