“I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.”
“Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.”
| Kamal Ahmed, Comedian (1966) |
| Sidney Altman, Scientist (1939) |
| Jan Peter Balkenende, Statesman (1956) |
| Anne Baxter, Actress (1923) |
| Joseph Cannon, Politician (1836) |
| Angela Carter, Novelist (1940) |
| Owen Hart, Entertainer (1965) |
| Joseph Joubert, Writer (1754) |
| Edwin Land, Inventor (1909) |
| Frederick Kelly, Athlete (1974) |
| Stanislaw Lec, Poet (1966) |