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Writers West of AlamedaAlameda, CA 94501 |
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Writers West of Alameda is a group meeting monthly to read and critique literary work of the members. Amateur and professional writers and all levels in between are invited to attend and to join.
Please come to a meeting. We rely on membership dues of $10 per year to offset our simple expenses.
Next meeting is April 10, 2018. In Conference Room C.
Click HERE for notes on past meetings
We meet at 7:30 PM
on the second Tuesday of every month
in Conference Room C - at Alameda Hospital - 2070 Clinton Avenue
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Note: We no longer have a post office box. We can be contacted via email.
We may be new on the Web, but we've been holding workshops in Alameda since 1984. Want to know what to expect? Click here for our Meeting Format. |
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"What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while.... What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though."
J. D. Salinger |
| "A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit." - Richard Bach |
| "The novel remains for me one of the few forms where we can record man's complexity and the strength and decency of his longings. Where we can describe, step by step, minute by minute, our not altogether unpleasant struggle to put ourselves into a viable and devout relationship to our beloved and mistaken world." - John Cheever |
| "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill." - Barbara Tuchman |
| Joanne Rowling, OBE (born 31 July 1965), commonly known as J. K. Rowling (pronunciation: rolling, as in rolling stone) is an English fiction writer. Rowling is most famous as author of the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has gained international attention, won multiple awards and sold a reported 300 million copies worldwide as of 2005. In February 2004, Forbes magazine estimated her fortune as £576 million (just over US$1 billion), making her the first person to become a US dollar billionaire by writing books. Rowling is also believed to be the wealthiest woman in the United Kingdom, well ahead of even Queen Elizabeth II, but this is unproven as the Queen's personal fortune is hidden in 'The Bank of England Nominees' making her fortune known to only her closest officials. |
| "The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again, and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the hearts of men centuries dead." - Clarence Day
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| "Books are quiet. They do not dissolve into wavy lines or snowstorm effects. They do not pause to deliver commercials. They are three-dimensional, having length, breadth and depth. They are convenient to handle and completely portable." - Anonymous
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| I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.
Agatha Christie (1890-1976) |
| "Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed." - Anne Rice |
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