From 'The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes'

[fated_bliss]

A few of my favourites:

Edgar Allan Poe

As a boy, Poe suffered from night fears:The superstitious skeptic, who could be terrified by his own imagination, later confessed to the editor George Graham that he 'disliked the dark, and was rarely out at night. On one occasion he said to me, "I believe that demons take advantage of the night to mislead

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[agentlerain]

You know, it renews my belief that no one should take themselves seriously, even if they do become literary geniuses when then die.

Haaa, I think the Emily who's running away in the second last one is Emily Dickonson? I wonder how old she was when she wrote that.

This really cheered up my morning. Ah, I need to go and do something unexpected and silly today. :3

am late DD:

[fated_bliss]

Literary geniuses are only human, though we really hate to think so, don't we? XD

I'm glad you enjoyed them! So were you able to do something unexpected and silly? :D