Showing posts with label writer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writer. Show all posts

Saturday, August 1, 2026

Great people: Louisa May Alcott.

Louisa May Alcott was an American writer. She was born on November 29, 1832, in Germantown, Pennsylvania, U. S.

Little Women (1868), Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1971), and Jo's Boys (1886) are Louisa May Alcott's famous novels.

These books have been translated into other languages. Also, there are movies and cartoons based on these stories.

Louisa May Alcott died on March 6, 1888, in Boston, Massachusetts, U. S.





Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Great people: Agatha Christie.

Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Mallowan, Lady Mallowan was born on September 1890, in Torquay, England. 


She was known as a detective story writer.

Murder on the Orient Express (1934), Death on the Nile (1937), The Murder at the Vicarage (1930) are famous novels written by Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple are main characters of these detective stories.


There are many different movies based on these books.

Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976, in Winterbrook House, England.


Monday, June 1, 2026

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred twenty.

                                                  Louisa May Alcott.

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“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

“I ask not for any crown  
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within.”

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”

“A faithful friend is a strong defense;
And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.”

“I want to do something splendid…
Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead…
I think I shall write books.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1315.Louisa_May_Alcott 

Friday, May 1, 2026

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred nineteen.

                                                     Agatha Christie.

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“The best time for planning a book is while you're doing the dishes.”

“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.”

“Time is the best killer.”

“If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.”

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”

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Wednesday, April 1, 2026

Great people: Carlo Collodi.

Carlo Lozenzini was born on November 24, 1826, in Florence, Italy. He was known as a writer.

The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) was Collodi's famous work in children's literature. This book has been translated into many languages and movies and cartoons have been made based on this story.

Carlo Collodi died on October 26, 1890, in Florence, Italy.





Sunday, March 1, 2026

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred seventeen.

                                                   Aesop.

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“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/12452.Aesop

Sunday, February 1, 2026

Great people: Beatrix Potter.

Helen Beatrix Potter Heelis was born on July 28, 1866, in London, England.

She was an English writer and illustrator. Beatrix Potter wrote books for children. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) is one of her notable works.

Potter died on December 22, 1943, in England.





Friday, January 2, 2026

Great people: Aesop.

Aesop (Αἴσωπος) (Aísōpos) was a storyteller in Ancient Greece. He was born c. 620 BCE.


Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica is Aesop's famous book. There are anthropomorphic animals, jokes, and educational moments.


The fabulist died 564 BCE, in Delphi, Greece.


Thursday, January 1, 2026

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred fifteen.

                                                      Carlo Collodi.

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“Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.”

“Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!”

“What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.”

Source of information:

https://www.azquotes.com/author/3141-Carlo_Collodi

Monday, December 1, 2025

Great people: P. L. Travers.

Pamela Lyndon Travers or Helen Lyndon Goff was born on August 9, 1899, in Maryborough, Australia.

Mary Poppins was her famous book. This story is about a fairytale nanny and children. There are many movies and cartoons about these characters.

Pamela Travers died on April 23, 2996, in London, England.





Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred fourteen.

                                                              Beatrix Potter.
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“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were--Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter. ”

“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”

“What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/11593.Beatrix_Potter

Saturday, November 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred thirteen.

                                                                  Jane Austen.
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“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1265.Jane_Austen

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred twelve.

                                                                  Pamela Travers.

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“Once we have accepted the story, we cannot escape the story's fate.”

“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/6872556.P_L_Travers 

Monday, September 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred eleven.

                                          Lawrence Durrell.

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“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”

“It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.”

“There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/8166.Lawrence_Durrell

Friday, August 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred ten.

                                                    Emily Brontё.

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“I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.”“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

“Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4191.Emily_Bront_

and https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4191.Emily_Bront_?page=2  

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Great people: Lord Byron.

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron was born on January 22, 1788, in London, England.


He was an English writer. Lord Byron wrote in Romanticism style.

Hours of Idleness (1807), The Giaour (1813), and Lara, A Tale (1814) were his notable works.


Byron had wife and children.

He died on April 19, 1824, in Aetolia, Greece.



Sunday, June 1, 2025

Great people: Mary Shelley.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Godwin was born on August 30, 1797, in London, England.

Her mother died and Mary was raised by her father.

Mary Shelley was an English writer. She wrote her famous Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).

Mary Shelley had spouse and children.

She died on February 1, 1851, in London, England.




Thursday, May 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred seven.

                                                                  Lord Byron.

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“There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living "for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.”

“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ”

“Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange, Stranger than Fiction”

“Friendship is love without wings.”

“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”

Source of information:

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/44407.Lord_Byron  

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Great people: Leon Battista Alberti.

Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian scientist, artist, writer, philosopher, and architect.

He was born on February 14, 1404, in Genoa, Italy.

Alberti's movement was in Italian Renaissance.

He had his own notable works.

Leon Battista Alberti died on April 25, 1472, in Rome, Italy.




Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred six.

                                                     Mary Shelley.
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“nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose”

“The beginning is always today.”

“Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.”

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