Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Robert Rankin
Born: July 27, 1949 (age 75)
Bio: Robert Fleming Rankin is a prolific British humorous novelist. Born in Parsons Green, London, he started writing in the late 1970s, and first entered the bestsellers lists with Snuff Fiction in 1999, by which time his previous eighteen books had sold around one million copies.
Known for:
- The Antipope (1981)
- The Brentford Triangle (1982)
- East of Ealing (1984)
- The Witches of Chiswick (2003)