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1 [W]e yielded to a long-suppressed desire to set sail for the South Pacific. Since that time we have lived in Tahiti...Sir Walter Scott's novels give me more pleasure than any other's...Most modern novels move too fast and are too lacking in beauty for my taste. I detest so-called 'realism'.
William Shakespeare, author of "The Tempest"
Robert Louis Stevenson, author of "Treasure Island"
Charles Bernard Nordhoff, author of "Mutiny on the Bounty"
Charles Dickens, author of "Great Expectations"
2 I am the most talented young playwright in the business...[I am] some kind of Socialist...All plays, just like all literature, are essentially propaganda. My business is to present truth dramatically...
William Shakespeare, author of "Hamlet"
Arthur Miller, author of "Death of a Salesman"
David Mamet, author of "Born on the Fourth of July"
Clifford Odets, author of "Waiting for Lefty"
3 I was born at Motihari, Bengal...educated at Eton, 1917-21, but I did not work there and I learned very little...I lived for about a year and half in Paris, writing novels and short stories which no one would publish...For a year or more I was an assistant in a London bookstore...By about 1935 I moved into the country and set up a small general store. I went to Spain to take part in the civil war...was badly wounded...What I saw in Spain [has] given me a horror of politics. In sentiment I am definately 'left'. I dislike big towns, noise, motorcars, the radio, tinned food, central heating, and modern furniture.
George Orwell, author of "1984"
H.G. Wells, author of "War of the Worlds"
T.S. Eliot, author of "The Waste Land"
Agatha Christie, author of "Murder on the Orient Express"
4 I accept the Spingarm Medal. I accept in the name of the stalwart, enduring millions of Negroes whose fate and destiny I have sought to depict...My writing which is my life and carries my convictions attempts to mirror their struggles for freedom.
James Baldwin, author of "Go Tell It on the Mountain"
Richard Wright, author of "Native Son"
Eldridge Cleaver, author of "Soul on Ice"
Felix Salten, author of "Bambi"
5 I was born at Indian Creek, Texas...a great, great, great granddaughter of Daniel Boone. I lack entirely a respect for money values, and for a caste of any kind, social, intellectual, or whatever. I should like to live in a place where I might swim in the sea...and ride horseback. I did not choose this vocation and I would not have chosen it. I made no attempt to publish anything until I was thirty but I have written and destroyed manuscripts quite literally by the trunkful.
Katherine Anne Porter, author of "Ship of Fools"
Willa Cather, author of "My Antonia"
Willa Shakespeare, author of "The Temptress"
Willa Antonia, author of "My Cateter"
6 I was born in a quiet, lovely little city, Indianapolis, Indiana...Progress swept all the old city away...I have lived in New York and Paris and Rome, but I always speak and think and write of Indianapolis as home...During my boyhood I wanted to be a painter...I pined to do what I couldn't so I became a writer....The natural writer hopes to communicate---to present somebody else his interpretation of life. He is not just an entertainer.
Stephen King, author of "The Shining"
Benjamin Harrison, author of "Why Not the Best?"
Kurt Vonnegut, author of "Breakfast of Champions"
Booth Tarkington, author of "The Magnificent Ambersons"
7 I was born in W. Hollow...Kentucky. I went to the one room country school house...I ran away with a street carnival...I tried to enter two colleges before I found a school in Tennessee [that would accept him]....I have always wanted to be a writer, I have fought for it, I have dreamed of it....I wrote poetry on leaves, scrapes of paper, tobacco sacks...I tied a towel around 703 poems...and sent them to Donald Davidson at Vanderbilt...American Mercury suggested I try story writing instead of poetry and I was off to story writing.
William Shakespeare, author of numerous auto-biographical poems written on leaves
Jesse Stuart, author of the auto-biographical "The Thread Runs So True"
Erskine Caldwell, author of the auto-biographical "Tobacco Road"
Felix Salten, author of the auto-biographical "Bambi"
8 It was the Great War and the children at home wanted letters from me---and they wanted them with illustrations. There seemed very little of interest to youngsters from the front and it was censored. Then my attention fell upon the very considerable part the animals were playing in the war...I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children...For years it was a constant source of shock to me to find my writings amongst 'Juveniles'. It does not bother me any more now, but I still feel there should be a category of 'Seniles' to offset the epithet.
Dr. Seuss, author of "The Cat in the Hat" and similar illustrated stories
Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of "Where the Wild Things Are" and other children's books.
Hugh Lofting, author of the Dr. Dolittle series
James Herriot, author of "All Things Bright and Beautiful" and other accounts of his work as a veternarian
9 I became an awfully spoilt child...being an immensely important person and with a violent desire to be left alone...I hated school...It interfered with my freedom...After the war I realized the ideas I held, liberalism, feminism, nationalism, socialism, pacificism, would not work because they refused to consider human nature as it really is. Instead, they presupposed that mankind was to 'progress'. By dregrees my knowledge of history convinced me that the only thoroughly sane people seemed to be those queer men and women which the Catholic Church calls the Saints...I ventured too near the abode of truth...and was received into the Catholic Church. The only Authority to which man can submit without debauching himself is...the Creator's toward Creation.
Tom Wolfe, author of "Bonfires of the Vanities".
Sigrid Undset, Nobel Prize winning author of the Kristin Lavransdatter triology
T.S. Eliot, author of "The Wasteland" and "Ash Wednesday"
G.K. Chesterton, author of the Father Brown mysteries and works of popular theology
10 Writing of himself and his wife in the third person: "They have a month or so for writing, which they do very intensively, turning out usually a book a year each. Their home in Santa Fe is a 30-room adobe house in a 2,500-acre tract of land. Their library is the largest private library in the state, containing over 13,000 books on our specialty subject...Their gallery includes nearly 8,000...paintings and drawings and their natural history collection is over 3,000 bird and mammal skins...He married at seventy-five and became a father at the age of seventy-eight...Their little daughter often appears on their programs in Indian costume."
John James Audubon
Norman Mailer
Ernest Thompson Seton
Edgar Rice Burroughs