"One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious."

Francois Rene Chateaubriand
(09/04/1776 – 07/04/1848)
French writer

"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."

Antonin Artaud
(09/04/1896 – 03/04/1948)
French writer

"How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?"

Mary Renault
(09/04/1905 – 12/13/1983)
English writer

"The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination."

Richard Wright
(09/04/1908 – 11/28/1960)
US writer

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these."

Paul Harvey
(09/04/1918 – )
US radio journalist

"My children loved them, but I always thought they were repulsive books, the 'Narnia' books. I can't stand that awful lion!"

Joan Delano Aiken
(09/04/1924 – 01/04/2004)
English writer, on C. S. Lewis' series

"Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum."

Tom Watson
(09/04/1949 – )
US golfer

"I fought the lawn, and the lawn won."

Rebecca Elizabeth Kerewsky
(09/04/1965 – )
US explorer, on mowing damp grass