“Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.”
“Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.”
| Agha Hasan Abedi, Businessman (1922) |
| Hall Caine, Novelist (1853) |
| Bobby Darin, Musician (1936) |
| Kurt Eisner, Politician (1867) |
| Julian Eltinge, Actor (1881) |
| William Emerson, Mathematician (1701) |
| B. C. Forbes, Journalist (1880) |
| Thomas Gainsborough, Artist (1727) |
| Lou Harrison, Composer (1917) |
| Robert Jarvik, Inventor (1946) |
| Lyle Alzado, Athlete (1992) |
| Henri La Fontaine, Lawyer (1943) |
| H. Rider Haggard, Writer (1925) |
| Georgia Douglas Johnson, Poet (1966) |
| Bill Lear, Inventor (1978) |
| Anna Lee, Actress (2004) |