Monday, 13 October 2014

Authors.

Guy Browning.
Born 1964
Botley Oxfordshire – Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Ex Comedy Duo – Dross Bros (Broke up)
Own Business Smokehouse in 1977 “opened specifically to help organisations think differently about whatever was on their mind.”
BBC Radio 4 (Small Talk 2003)
Directed first film ‘Tortoise In Love’ (2012)

“Flirting is vertical foreplay”

“Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting the punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs and then pimping their books.”

“What makes a date so dreadful is the weight of expectation attached to it. There is every chance that you may meet your soul-mate, get married, have children and be buried side by side. There is an equal chance that the person you meet will look as if they've already been buried for some time.”

Douglas Adams.
Born 11th March 1952 – 11th May 2002
Hitchhikers; ‘Trilogy; Series; Comics; Feature film.
Doctor Who
Radio Academy Hall of Fame
Environmentalist; Conservationist; Fast Cars; Camera; Apple Fan; Staunch Atheist.
“You live and learn, at any rate you live”
“Life is wasted on living”

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” 

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”

Haruki Murakami
Contempory Japanese Writer
Translated into over 50 languages/ Sold millions of copies
Ficton/Non-Ficton writer / Critical Acclaim / Numerous Awards

Heavily influenced by Western writers
Critized in Japan for being ‘Un-Japanese’
Opened a record store and Jazz Club before being a writer

“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”

“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.”
“I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.” 

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