1. Happy Birthday, Joseph Heller!

     

  2. Happy 88th Birthday, The Great Gatsby!

    Check out our entire Great Gatsby collection here.

     


  3. People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage. The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience.
    — Happy Birthday, Flannery O’Connor!
     

  4. Happy Birthday, Khalid Hosseini! 

     


  5. I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
    — Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
     

  6. Happy Birthday, Alice Walker! #outofprint #outofprinttees #outofprintclothing #author #birthday #happybirthday #alicewalker #lit #literature #book #bookcover #bookshirt #whatsyourstory #instafashion #love #purple #firstedition #pulitizer #soft

     


  7. There couldn’t be a society of people who didn’t dream. They’d be dead in two weeks.
    — William S. Burroughs, born on this day in 1914.
     


  8. Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
    — Happy Birthday, Norman Mailer!
     


  9. Ah, good conversation - there’s nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
    — 

    The Age of Innocence

    Happy Birthday, Edith Wharton!

     


  10. If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad.
    — Happy Birthday, Lord Byron!
     


  11. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
     

  12. Happy Birthday, Simone de Beauvoir!

     


  13. If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
    — Happy Birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien!
     


  14. I’m no prophet, but I’m guessing that comic books will always be strong. I don’t think anything can really beat the pure fun and pleasure of holding a magazine in your hand, reading the story on paper, being able to roll it up and put it in your pocket, reread again later, show it to a friend, carry it with you, toss it on a shelf, collect them, have a lot of magazines lined up and read them again as a series. I think young people have always loved that. I think they always will.
    — Happy 90th Birthday, Stan Lee!
     

  15. Happy Birthday, Emily Dickinson!