Quotes and Sayings by Authors: Inspirational Wisdom

Norman Mailer

Norman Mailer was born on January 31, 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey. * He attended Harvard University, where he studied…

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Norman Vincent Peale

Norman Vincent Peale was an American Protestant clergyman and author. * He was born in Bowersville, Ohio, on May 31, 1898. * He…

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Norton Juster

Norton Juster was an American author, architect, and academic. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1929. He studied…

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Obert Skye

Obert Skye is an American author of children's books. * He is best known for his Leven Thumps series, which follows the…

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Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler was an American science fiction writer. * She was born in Pasadena, California, in 1947. * She began writing…

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Ogden Nash

Ogden Nash was born in Rye, New York, in 1902. He attended Harvard University, but dropped out after one year. He worked as a…

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Oliver Goldsmith

Oliver Goldsmith was an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, poet, and essayist. He is best known for his novel The Vicar of…

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Oliver James

Oliver James is a British actor, musician, and writer. He was born in London in 1980 and trained at the Guildford School of…

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Oliver Sacks

Oliver Sacks was a British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer. * He was born in London in 1933 and…

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and essayist. * He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1809. * He…

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Omar Khayyám

Omar Khayyam was a Persian polymath who lived from 1048 to 1131. He was a mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet. He is…

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One Direction

One Direction is an English-Irish boy band formed in London in 2010. * The band members are Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry…

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Orson Welles

Orson Welles was an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer, and radio personality. * He was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin,…

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Osamu Dazai

Osamu Dazai was born in Kanagi, Aomori, Japan on June 19, 1909. * He was the eighth of eleven children born to a wealthy…

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Osho

Osho (born Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain; December 11, 1931 – January 19, 1990) was an Indian mystic, spiritual teacher and founder…

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Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1874. * He was a Baptist minister and teacher. * He is best known for his book,…

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Otto Rank

Otto Rank was an Austrian-American psychoanalyst and writer. * He was born in Vienna in 1884 and died in New York City in 1939. *…

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Ovid

Ovid was a Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was born in Sulmona, Italy, in 43 BC. He studied rhetoric and…

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P.B. Kerr

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P.C. Cast

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P.C. Hodgell

P.C. Hodgell is an American fantasy writer and former academic. * She was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1951. * She holds a…

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P.D. James

P.D. James was born Phyllis Dorothy James in Oxford, England, in 1920. * She worked in the National Health Service and the Home…

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P.D. Ouspensky

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P.G. Wodehouse

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