AN EVENING WITH YORKSHIRE AUTHOR GERVASE PHINN AUTHOR PHINN AT THE MARRIOTT HOTEL, YORK
FRIDAY 2009FRIDAY 30TH OCTOBER 2009

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7.30 pm Start
Book signing and light refreshments at 9pm

Below are photos and extracts from and about Gervase Phinn's acclaimed Theatre Tour.

 One of Britain's most popular writers and performers best known for his 4 autobiographical novels Up and Down in the Dales, The Other Side of The Dale, Over Hill and Dale and Head Over Heels In The Dales.

Gervase Phinn shares his hilarious tales of life as a school inspector in the Yorkshire Dales which will have you in stitches. Dubbed 'The James Herriot of schools' this best selling author, Radio and TV personality is not to be missed.

"A natural storyteller, he combines the timing of the professional comedian with palpable warmth and the ability to deliver a message that is just more than a series of jokes" - The Times

“I owe, as I’ve always said in life, any success I’ve had to people. It started with my parents. My mother used to read to me, my father used to tell stories – White Fang and Moonfleet – and he’d take me to the library in Rotherham, he’d go to the market and pick up old paperbacks. So, as a child, I used to read avidly anywhere - behind the garden shed, in summer on the lawn, up a tree, in bed at night under the covers with my torch. I couldn’t get my nose out of a book and the more you practise something, the better you become at it. If you read and read, you know a lot about language and on the back of reading is writing."

“My university tutor at Leeds, Dr Cowell, said ‘if you want to be a writer, you’ve got to do two things – read, read and read and you’ve got to keep a notebook and write things down, which was great advice. One of the best bits of advice to give is ‘keep a diary of events and things that happen’.

Words of wisdom:
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
- Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you’ll win some false friends and true enemies.
- Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you.
- Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight.
- Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous.
- Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.
- Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough.
- Give it anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it’s between you and God.
- It was never between you and them anyway.
Mother Theresa

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