I've turned my back on fancy parties and red carpets. I'm…

I've always had to drag myself to fancy parties and steel myself to walk into a crowded room. The pop of the red carpet…

— Susanna Reid

I don't really go to fancy parties, so I'm not really familiar with that kind of celebrity lifestyle. I don't dress up a lot.…

— Jacob Anderson

Interviews are fun, but I get nervous at red carpets.

— Kodi Smit-McPhee

I like when red carpets are over. I hate red carpets in general. I don't understand them.

— Gabourey Sidibe

I also would rather race than strut red carpets in Hollywood - and thank God this is not my job - but also the…

— Bernie Ecclestone

I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't…

— Kat Graham

I've walked with very famous people down red carpets over to the crowd of thousands of people, and you'll reach out to shake their…

— George Clooney

I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone.…

— Patricia Marx

In high school, I had a teacher there who was really great to me and with whom I finally dared to admit I wanted…

— Jonathan Dee

I read a lot of the books that I love again and again and again and try to understand how the writer did it.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book.

— Tomi Adeyemi

Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do…

— Northrop Frye

I really looked up to Tina Fey as a writer, and because I did have a background in writing, she is someone whose career…

— Nasim Pedrad

When I came into consciousness as a writer when I was in my early 20s, I just assumed that a writer did - a…

— W. S. Di Piero