"A Message About Messages" in CBC Magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20051128074549/http://www.cbcbooks.org/cbcmagazine/meet/leguin_ursula_k.html
— Maylis de Kerangal French writer 1967
On writing in “‘What is a heart? You have an organ in your body and you have a symbol of love’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/28/maylis-de-kerangal-interview-wellcome-prize-writing in The Guardian (2017 Apr 28)
— Jonathan Safran Foer, libro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino
Origine: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
— Judith Krug librarian and freedom of speech proponent 1940 - 2009
"Oak Lawn Library Vows to Keep Playboy on Shelf" by Jo Napolitano, Chicago Tribune, (June 23, 2005)
— Tony Blair former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1953
"Mr Blair opts out", Guardian, 2 December 1994. Statement on 1 December 1994, defending his decision to send his eldest son Euan to the London Oratory School which had opted out of local education authority control under a policy which the Labour Party opposed.
1990s
— Tomás Rivera American academic 1935 - 1984
On his wanting to become a writer at an early age in " From Poverty to Power: The Inspiring Story of Tomas Rivera http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/academic/article/778847/From-Poverty-to-Power-The-Inspiring-Story-of-Tomas-Rivera" (TeenInk)
— Sylvia Plath American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932 - 1963
Origine: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
— Donald J. Trump 45th President of the United States of America 1946
2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)
„There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.“
— Richard Scarry author and illustrator from the United States 1919 - 1994
Origine: Busy, Busy Town
— Stephen Chbosky, libro Ragazzo da parete
Variante: If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.
Origine: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
„Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write.“
— Robert Penn Warren American poet, novelist, and literary critic 1905 - 1989
„I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.“
— Fernando Pessoa, libro Libro dell'inquietudine
Origine: The Book of Disquiet
„Children go to school because their parents don't want them in the house.“
— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II 1921
Origine: Prompting giggles from Malala Yousafzai, who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban after campaigning for the right of girls to go to school without fear - October 2013.
— Stephen A. Smith sports journalist 1967
Interview on Paula Zahn Now http://atheism.about.com/b/a/258728.htm (January 31, 2007).
— Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945
Ik moet iets hebben naast man en kinderen waar ik me aan wijden kan! O ja, ik wil niet zoals de meeste mensen voor niets geleefd hebben. Ik wil van nut of plezier zijn voor de mensen, die om mij heen leven en die mij toch niet kennen.
5 April 1944
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
— Brian Cox (physicist) English physicist and former musician 1968
Johnathan Ross Show 26 March 2010 BBC One
