The Essex Book Festival is a literary festival that has been held across the county of Essex annually since March 1999, United Kingdom. The festival aims to provide an opportunity for writers and the public to meet. The festival has been the host of numerous authors of international acclaim but is mainly focused on local and British writers and critics. The events of the festival are generally held in libraries, theatres and schools or colleges and span the month of March.
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“Well, it seems to me a scientist has need for both vision and confidence.”
—Harry Essex (b. 1910)
“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
—Christopher Buckley, U.S. author. A review of three books of quotations from Newt Gingrich. “Newtie’s Greatest Hits,” The New York Times Book Review (March 12, 1995)
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—Laurence Stallings (1894–1968)