That's because the analysts are writing about a country…

For nearly a century the psychoanalysts have been writing op-ed pieces about the workings of a country they've never traveled to, a place that,…

— Susanna Kaysen

I found when I started getting serious about writing music, that my writing was country songs. It was basically country subject matter, country melodies…

— Lari White

I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed. One word…

— Eavan Boland

When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my…

— Hisham Matar

Lolita' was written at a time when we were heavily listening to more dance, electronic, and trance, and then on the flip side we…

— Jessica Origliasso

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.

— Willie Nelson

It is a very cynical, skeptical, foolish person that suggests Israel does not need a peace process to have a growing economy.

— Richard Quest

I love writers who are insightful enough to be cynical but choose not to be.

— Brian D. McLaren

A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.

— Andre Siegfried

I'm not cynical.

— Laura Schlessinger

We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what…

— Jordan Peterson

Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on…

— Sylvia Plath

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you…

— Colin Quinn

“Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't…

— Steve Goodier