Eric Linklater

Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE (8 March 1899 – 7 November 1974) was a Welsh-born Scottish poet, fiction writer, military historian, and travel writer. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British subject. Quotes "There won’t be any revolution in America," said Isadore. Nikitin agreed. "The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can’t feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom." Juan in America (1931), bk. 5, pt. 3 "London's a dull town," said Magnus, ... "It's easy to live in," he said, "but the air's flat and stale and the people half-hearted. There's nothing to do there. You can make love without trouble or meaning, or get mildly drunk, or extract second-hand emotions from the cinema, or put your mind to sleep on a dance-floor, or play bridge, or throw yourself in front of a train on the Underground. There are forty ways of escaping from consciousness. But I want something more exciting than that." Magnus Merriman (1934), p. 44 I find it difficult to recognize people. Human beings are so much alike. "Sealskin Trousers", Sealskin Trousers and Other Stories (1947), p. 110 External links Category:1899 births Category:1974 deaths Category:Poets from Scotland Category:Novelists from Scotland Category:Historians from Scotland Category:Children's authors Category:University of Aberdeen alumni Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire