Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

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• Khalil Gibran

  Poet

  Saturday, Jan 06, 1883
  Friday, Apr 10, 1931

• W. Edwards Deming

  Statistician

  Sunday, Oct 14, 1900
  Monday, Dec 20, 1993

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Civil Rights Activist

  Tuesday, Jan 15, 1929
  Thursday, Apr 04, 1968

• Wayne Dyer

  Author

  Friday, May 10, 1940
  Saturday, Aug 29, 2015

• Kanye West

  Songwriter

  Wednesday, Jun 08, 1977
  Thursday, Jun 04, 2015

• Julius Caesar

  Roman Dictator

  Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
  

• Muhammad Ali

  Professional Boxer

  Saturday, Jan 17, 1942
  Friday, Jun 03, 2016

• Edgar Allan Poe

  Author

  Thursday, Jan 19, 1809
  Sunday, Oct 07, 1849

• Jordan Peterson

  Psychologist

  
  

• Mae West

  Actress

  Thursday, Aug 17, 1893
  Saturday, Nov 22, 1980

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essayist

  Wednesday, May 25, 1803
  Thursday, Apr 27, 1882

• Vincent Van Gogh

  Painter

  Wednesday, Mar 30, 1853
  Tuesday, Jul 29, 1890

• Steve Jobs

  Entrepreneur

  Thursday, Feb 24, 1955
  Wednesday, Oct 05, 2011

• Albert Camus

  Author

  Friday, Nov 07, 1913
  Monday, Jan 04, 1960

• Napoleon Hill

  Author

  Friday, Oct 26, 1883
  Sunday, Nov 08, 1970