Literary Birthday – 2 October – Jack Finney
Jack Finney was born on 2 October 1911 and died on 14 November 1995.
Jack Finney Quotes
- Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again? (Time and Again)
- The human mind searches for cause and effect, always; and we all prefer the weird and thrilling to the dull and commonplace as an answer. (The Body Snatchers)
- He’s got to have the ability, and it seems to be fairly rare, to see things as they are and at the same time as they might have been. What we mean is the eye of an artist. (Time and Again)
- And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it stops, turns and goes back, leaving an empty earth of birds and insects, wind, rain and rusting weapons. (About Time: 12 Short Stories)
- Maybe the new one would actually know how to write, instead of beating his head against a stone wall just trying. (The Body Snatchers)
Source for quotes: Goodreads
Jack Finney was an American author who wrote science fiction and thrillers. In the 1940s, he moved to New York, where he worked as an advertising copywriter. While holding a full-time job and raising a young family, he wrote fiction in the evenings, eventually selling short stories to magazines. Finney won a contest for his story, ‘The Widow’s Walk’, in 1946. His works include The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. His themes include previous time periods and time travel, and ordinary people encountering extraordinary circumstances. Many of his works were adapted into films or television productions. Finney was awarded the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1987.
Source for photograph: TMDB
by Amanda Patterson
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