I love L.A. It was an awesome place to spend my 20s, full of creative people, but I never wanted to stay there. It wasn’t necessarily Texas that I wanted to move to; I just knew I wanted to live in the country somewhere. My wife and I found this place in Texas that we really liked, so we packed up our stuff and moved. Scoot McNairy Read Quote
While writing ‘City Boy,’ I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal. Edmund White Read Quote
I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name. Emily Dickinson Read Quote
I watched wrestling as a kid when I was younger, and then I kind of fell out of it, and then I started watching it again around my early 20s. Gail Kim Read Quote
I’ll never forget the moment in 1985 when I was riding my motorbike down the King’s Road and I first saw the words David Linley on the sign on my first shop. I nearly came off my bike. It was so incredibly public; I suddenly realised there was to be no stepping away from my work because my name was all over it. David Linley Read Quote
Just do your schoolwork, focus on a sport if you’re good at it, do what I did. Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce Read Quote
Once I got into college, I discovered literature – in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story and narrative, and you know, like anyone else, I kind of wanted to do it, too. Matt de la Pena Read Quote
