Roger Kahn (1927–2020) American baseball writer
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 43
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Roger Kahn (1927–2020) American baseball writer
Source: The Boys Of Summer, Chapter 1, The Trolley Car That Ran By Ebbets Field, p. 43
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) American author
I never have been able to sell to Adventure; guess my first attempt cooked me with them for ever!
From a letter to H. P. Lovecraft (c. July 1933)
Letters
Yvette Cooper (1969) British politician
On why she did not nominate herself to become Leader of the Labour Party, during BBC's Today Programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00v6by4/Profile_Yvette_Cooper_Shadow_Foreign_Secretary, May, 2010.
“I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”
Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer
Kerouac, as quoted by Allen Ginsberg in The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice (2006), page 250.
Wesley Clark (1944) American general and former Democratic Party presidential candidate
Tennessee True Values Tour remarks, Jackson, Tennessee (4 February 2004) http://www.clark04.com/speeches/040/
Diana Gabaldon (1952) American author
On balancing novel writing with her personal life in “Diana Gabaldon on Her ‘Outlander’ Writing Process & Knowing Sam Heughan Was Jamie” https://collider.com/diana-gabaldon-outlander-interview/ in Collider (2018 Aug 2)
James Clavell book The Children's Story
Afterword to his short story "The Children's Story" (1963).
The Children's Story (1982)
Context: I asked all kinds of people of every age, "You know the 'I pledge allegiance…'" but before I could finish, at once they would all parrot it, the words almost always equally blurred. In every case discovered that not one teacher, ever — or anyone — had ever explained the words to any one of them. Everyone just had to learn it to say it. The Children's Story came into being that day. It was then that I realized how completely vulnerable my child's mind was — any mind for that matter — under controlled circumstances. Normally I write and rewrite and re-rewrite, but this story came quickly — almost by itself. Barely three words were changed. It pleases me greatly because it keeps asking me questions … Questions like what's the use of "I pledge allegiance" without understanding? Like why is it so easy to divert thoughts and implant others? Like what is freedom and why is it so hard to explain? The Children's Story keeps asking me all sorts of questions I cannot answer. Perhaps you can — then your children will…