Literary Birthday – 21 April – Alistair Maclean

Alistair MacLean was born on 21 April 1922 and died on 2 February 1987.

Alistair Maclean Quotes

1. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.
2. The point I make is simply that cruelty and hate and intolerance are the monopoly of no particular race or creed or time. They have been with us since the world began and are still with us, in every country in the world.
3. I am not a novelist, I’m a storyteller.
4. I’m not a born writer, and I don’t enjoy writing.
5. I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat – just to get the darned thing finished.

Alistair MacLean was a Scottish novelist. He wrote popular thrillers and adventure stories, including The Guns of Navarone, Force 10 from Navarone, and Where Eagles Dare. Click here to read about the themes in his novels. His books are estimated to have sold over 150 million copies, making him one of the bestselling fiction authors of all time. MacLean was awarded a doctor of letters by the University of Glasgow in 1983.

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by Amanda Patterson

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