Theodore Roosevelt, on books:

There are rainy days in autumn and storm days in winter

when the rocking chair in front of the fire

simply demands an accompanying book.

- Theodore Roosevelt.

National Cat Day – October 29

Happy National Cat Day!

Born on this day – Edwige Feuillère:

Actress

October 29, 1907 – November 13, 1998

On this day in movie history - The Shooting (1966)

The Shooting

directed by Monte Hellman,

written by Carole Eastman (writing as Adrien Joyce),

was released at the San Francisco Film Festival in the United States on October 23, 1966.

Music by Richard Markowitz.

Cast:

Will Hutchins, Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, Warren Oates, Charles Eastman, Guy El Tsosie, Brandon Carroll, B.J. Merholz, Wally K. Berns, William Mackleprang, James Campbell.

Toni Morrison on writing:

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning,

it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic …

Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways,

learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies,

reveals or displays it to its best advantage.

- Toni Morrison.

Born on this day – Yves Montand:

Actor

Singer

October 13, 1921 – November 9, 1991

Born on this day – Ron Leibman:

Actor

October 11, 1937 – December 6, 2019