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Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, they seemed so sexy and simple and looked after. In real life, I'm none of those things. But I'd...

Katherine Ryan
Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, they seemed so sexy and simple and looked after. In real life, I'm none of those things. But I'd rather be fierce and complicated.

For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's exactly what happens for a spy who is in deep cover.

Nathan Englander
For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's exactly what happens for a spy who is in deep cover.

I was born in India... Gujarat. I am an Indian! And India is a democratic country, anyone can stand for elections. I can also stand for elections.

Paresh Rawal
I was born in India... Gujarat. I am an Indian! And India is a democratic country, anyone can stand for elections. I can also stand for elections.

I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.

I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't...

Sally Pearson
I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

Anthony LaPaglia
A lot of people think I'm that guy in 'Betsy's Wedding', but I'm not. What it is for me is that, on some level, I connect with the character emotionally.

My sister's journal was the romantic one with boys, and mine was talking about my rock tumbler. We were so different and so similar.

Paula Pell
My sister's journal was the romantic one with boys, and mine was talking about my rock tumbler. We were so different and so similar.

My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Kendrick Lamar
My mom's one of 13 siblings, and they all got six kids, and till I was 13 everybody was in Compton.

Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my...

Julie Andrews
Whenever I think of my birthplace, Walton-on-Thames, my reference first and foremost is the river. I love the smell of the river; love its history, its gentleness. I was aware of its presence from my earliest years. Its majesty centered me, calmed me, was a solace to a certain extent.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

V.S. Pritchett
In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

Marie Lu
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

We aren't cool and never will be.

Chris Martin
We aren't cool and never will be.

Or maybe they weren't changing. Maybe they were just now becoming what they had always wanted to be.

Eilis O'Neal The False...
Or maybe they weren't changing. Maybe they were just now becoming what they had always wanted to be.

What is it about guys named Adam?

Faith Sullivan Come What May
What is it about guys named Adam?

He was in a strange, badly lit room, wearing even stranger clothes, getting an earful from an unknown woman, in a language that he could and couldn't exactly place in a very disturbing way. These were...

Angelo Tsanatelis Origins
He was in a strange, badly lit room, wearing even stranger clothes, getting an earful from an unknown woman, in a language that he could and couldn't exactly place in a very disturbing way. These were not his memories.

What makes you think that people with other types of clothes are special? I can go to the shop, buy such clothes, and what? Now I am important?

Deyth Banger
What makes you think that people with other types of clothes are special? I can go to the shop, buy such clothes, and what? Now I am important?

"I believe that we don't choose our stories," she began, leaning forward. "Our stories choose us." She paused and took a sip of water. Her hand, I noticed was steady.. "And if we don't tell them, then...

Dani Shapiro Still Writing:...
"I believe that we don't choose our stories," she began, leaning forward. "Our stories choose us." She paused and took a sip of water. Her hand, I noticed was steady.. "And if we don't tell them, then we are somehow diminished."

Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.

Lauren Beukes Zoo City
Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no...

Bryce Courtenay
Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.

James Joyce
I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.

But years and miles away from home could never attenuate the city's hold on my identity, and the more I explored places and people far from Hampton, the more my status as one of its daughters came to...

Margot Lee Shetterly Hidden Figures:...
But years and miles away from home could never attenuate the city's hold on my identity, and the more I explored places and people far from Hampton, the more my status as one of its daughters came to mean to me.

I think life becomes a fabric of choices, interwoven, all related... I split my life into these two things, thief and lady

A.C. Gaughen Lion Heart
I think life becomes a fabric of choices, interwoven, all related... I split my life into these two things, thief and lady

True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern Appalachia - but at least I'd learned to walk and talk enough...

Sol Luckman Beginner's Luke
True, beneath the human façade, I was an interloper, an alien whose ship had crashed beyond hope of repair in the backwoods of Southern Appalachia - but at least I'd learned to walk and talk enough like the locals to be rejected as one of their own.

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no...

John Marsden The Night Is for...
So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had no stories, they wouldn't be human, wouldn't exist. And if my stories had been different I wouldn't be the person I am.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Emil M. Cioran
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

In the space of solitude, a writer attempts to remember how they became whom they are but nobody's memory is up to this demanding task. No matter how much a person harrows the fertile lanes of memory,...

Kilroy J. Oldster Dead Toad...
In the space of solitude, a writer attempts to remember how they became whom they are but nobody's memory is up to this demanding task. No matter how much a person harrows the fertile lanes of memory, some memories are lost by the passage of time, psychological defense mechanisms screen other memories from detection, the ephemeral character of other memories are invariably too elusive to arrest with reciprocal language.

She had a sense of longing and loss that she had never had before. It was as if her family history had been erased and they'd been left unmemorable. She imagined that Rachel's family must have similar...

Denny Taylor Rosie's Umbrella
She had a sense of longing and loss that she had never had before. It was as if her family history had been erased and they'd been left unmemorable. She imagined that Rachel's family must have similar feelings, but she did not try to share these thoughts with Rachel.

In the words he's free, on the page he can be anything. A hero.

Lavie Tidhar The Violent...
In the words he's free, on the page he can be anything. A hero.

I will keep writing about these intersections as a writer and a teacher, as a black woman, as a bad feminist, until I no longer feel like what I want is impossible. I no longer want to believe that...

Roxane Gay Bad Feminist
I will keep writing about these intersections as a writer and a teacher, as a black woman, as a bad feminist, until I no longer feel like what I want is impossible. I no longer want to believe that these problems are too complex for us to make sense of them.

That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.

Lawrence Hill The Book of...
That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.
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