I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm…

“I'm following it perfectly. Although, if this were a novel, I'd take the trouble to reread the last paragraph as carefully as possible.”

— César Aira

I went through a lot. I had a difficult, in some ways, a difficult upbringing. I had this kind of urge, this like burning…

— Lola Young

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

— Stephen Fry

There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have…

— Anthony de Mello

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children…

— Phyllis Diller

I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.

— Alia Shawkat

“But Dante made talking and living and feeling seem like all those things were perfectly natural. Not in my world, they weren’t.”

— Anonymous

The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics…

— Carl Jung

Friendship takes place between those who have an affinity for one another, and is a perfectly natural and inevitable result. No professions nor advances…

— Henry David Thoreau

We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after…

— Seth Shostak

Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know…

— William Daniel Phillips

It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize, how would…

— Moby

It occurs to me one evening as I'm feeding the birds that all I did was put two birds in the aviary, some food…

— William Wharton

There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom…

— Jules Romains

A writer represents his family history. My grandfather was a senator and my father served in the Roosevelt administration. In other words, I grew…

— Gore Vidal