“Writers
write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always,
at bottom, to be more themselves.” – Alduous Huxley
Since my new book And The Wind Whispered is set in 1894
I’ve become more interested in things happening in the world that year. One thing I hadn’t expected to discover was
that it was the birth year of the renowned writer and philosopher. It was, in fact, on this date that he was
born.
As I’ve written about Huxley before,
few people have had as great an impact on the world’s thinking, particularly
from his novel Brave New World,
ranked by those who do such rankings as somewhere between the Number 1 and
Number 5 best fictional work in the English language written during the 20th
Century.
Alduous Huxley
Widely acknowledged as one of the
pre-eminent intellectuals, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in
Literature 7 different years. He kept
striving, through his many forms of writing, to find “the right words” to share
his hopes and fears for the world and to encourage each
individual to do his or her best to make it a better place.
“And, there is only one corner of the
universe you can be certain of improving,” he said, “and that's your own self.”
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