Greg Fields
Author, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒚. Editor for my publisher and a regular presenter at the International Dublin Writers Festival. Love for the beauty of the language and the people who create it.
www.gregfields.net
- L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) admittedly wrote 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝑾𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝑶𝒛 through a socialist lens: "There were no poor people in the land of Oz because there was no such thing as money. Each person was given freely by his neighbors whatever he required for his use." #booksky #writingcommunity #authors
- On this day in 1925 Hogarth Press published Virginia Woolf's 𝑴𝒓𝒔. 𝑫𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒂𝒚 "For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone." #booksky #writingcommunity #authors
- English novelist Daphne du Maurier (1907-89) "Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind." #booksky #writingcommunity #authors
- On this day in 1982 John Updike is awarded the Pulitzer for 𝑹𝒂𝒃𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝑹𝒊𝒄𝒉, the third book in his series examining modern stagnation. "Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey." #booksky #writingcommunity #authors
- In 1950 Eugene Ionesco's first play 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒍𝒅 𝑺𝒐𝒑𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒐 premieres in Paris "Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of darkness, utterly new and fresh. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us." #booksky #writingcommunity #authors
- Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, born 1953. Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it’s very hard because I’m frightened of encountering the wilderness of my own spirit #booksky #writingcommunity #authors
- British novelist Richard Adams (1920-2016) - 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝑫𝒐𝒘𝒏 "You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it’s not that simple." #booksky #writingcommunity #authors
