I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can’t get rid of. Calvin Trillin Read Quote
There was a sense that there was a lot of word of mouth happening with ‘The Memory Keeper’s Daughter,’ even in hardcover. Kim Edwards Read Quote
Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely. Rupert Murdoch Read Quote
My mother had me when she was 16, and that was an issue that had to be dealt with. She grew up in a very religious background, and there was a lot of discussion of what they should do with this unborn child. But here I am, and thank goodness. Carmen Cusack Read Quote
It’s not about finding Mr Right, or that sort of conventional ending, but I do want my characters to have hope – and that’s what I do with all my stories. Cecelia Ahern Read Quote
The revolution is that we can be anything. We don’t have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it is my responsibility to represent only good black people… I mean, what are you talking about? That’s not a character – that’s a polemic. Courtney A. Kemp Read Quote
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person’s skin from his own? Joseph Murray Read Quote
