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The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Posted on February 14, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments. Love is not love/Which alters when it alteration finds,/Or bends with the remover to remove –William Shakespeare, a love sonnet for Valentines day.

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, February 13, 2023

Posted on February 13, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

“Writing is considered a profession, and I don’t think it is a profession. I think that everyone who does not need to be a writer, who thinks he can do something else, ought to do something else. Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don’t think an artist can ever be happy.” – Georges Simenon, born on this day in 1903.

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, February 12, 2023

Posted on February 12, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of two famous who were born on the same day in 1809: Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. It’s also the birthday of Judy Blume (1938) and poet and editor Deborah Garrison (1965).

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, February 11, 2023

Posted on February 11, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, film director, producer, and screenwriter, was born on this day in 1909.. He won many awards, including double Oscars as Best Director and Best Screenplay for “All About Eve”, in which he gave Bette Davis the line, “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, February 10, 2023

Posted on February 10, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.” the words of playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht, born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht on this day in Augsburg, Bavaria (1898).

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, February 9, 2023

Posted on February 9, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of poet Amy Lowell (1874). Her posthumous collection of poetry, “What’s O’Clock”, won the Pulitzer Prize. She once said “God made me a businesswoman and I made myself a poet.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Posted on February 8, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of Jules Verne (1828). Known as the father of science fiction, Verne described inventions that were similar to modern airplanes and automobiles, and tall skyscrapers where people use electricity to listen to the radio and send faxes, and yet he wrote his stories by candlelight.

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Posted on February 7, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of Sinclair Lewis, born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota (1885), author of “Main Street” and “Babbitt”, and the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature.

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, February 6, 2023

Posted on February 6, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

It was on this day in 1937 that John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men was published. It’s the birthday of British paleoanthropologist Mary Douglas Leakey (1913) and of Babe Ruth (1895).

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, February 5, 2023

Posted on February 5, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

The American novelist, poet, and painter William S. Burroughs was born on this day in 1914.Burroughs is best known for his third novel, “Naked Lunch.” On writing, he said: “The only way I can write narrative is to get right outside my body and experience it. This can be exhausting and at times dangerous. One cannot be sure of redemption.”

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