Literary Birthday – 30 August – Nina George

Happy Birthday, Nina George, born on 30 August 1973.

Nina George Quotes

1. Good writing comes from writing every day. (New In Books)
2. Books turn people into time travelers, shape shifters, body switchers, mind readers, and immortals, and therefore books are the last great alchemy of our age. (The Little French Village of Book Lovers)
3. Readers explored someone else’s mind, dreamed someone else’s dreams, walked in a different body, felt what strangers felt in their misery and desperation and passion, traveled through different lands and parallel universes without moving. They suddenly became old or young again and slipped into a different gender or a different-colored skin. (The Little French Village of Book Lovers)
4. That’s how to read—like a butterfly. It flutters around aimlessly until suddenly it stumbles upon an uncharted paradise. Don’t listen to your teacher about what you should and shouldn’t have read. Never be arrogant about certain types of books. Be a butterfly! (The Little French Village of Book Lovers)
5. Others see only the chapters we choose to show or the actions we leave behind. (The Little Paris Bookshop)
6. Are books not the last remaining place for otherwise inconceivable encounters between different people, different periods, different landscapes, and different emotions? If Love is the poetry of the senses, books are the poetry of the impossible. (The Little French Village of Book Lovers)
7. Life was created because someone described it. Love was born when someone sang it into life. Humankind arose because someone put pen to paper and wrote: ‘Once upon a time there was a man’.  (The Little French Village of Book Lovers)
8. Maybe our lives are nothing but stories that are being read by other people. (The Book Of Dreams)
9. When you sense the deadly sharp edge of a deadline looming just ahead, when you feel like you’re racing madly toward an abyss filled with upright boning knives, when you stitch together the wings (i.e., a story) that will fly you to safety on the other side—this is when you deliver a better, tighter, more powerful piece of writing. (Writer’s Digest)

Nina George is a German writer. She is a multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author who has been writing novels, non-fiction books (as Anne West), essays, reports, short stories, blogs, and columns since 1992. She has published 26 books (novels, mysteries, and non-fiction) as well as over hundred short stories and more than 600 columns. Her novel The Little Paris Bookshop was translated into 36 languages and topped the bestseller lists, including the New York Times. She writes about books as emotional remedies, healing tools, and catalysts for changing destinies. There are meta-literary references to many famous literary works and authors in her novel. She writes general fiction, literary fiction, and romance, infused with magical realism and philosophical reflections. She also writea detective novels with her husband, and co-writer Jo Kramer, their pseudonym being Jean Bagnol. George was President of the European Writers‘ Council, the federation of 50 European writers’ associations for four years. Her latest novels are The Little French Village of Book Lovers and Beautiful Nights Follow her on Facebook.

Source for photograph: Author’s Media Kit

by Amanda Patterson
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