I owe everything to Spain - that's where I learned to…

Being a native of Spain, the country to which I owe much of my education and cultural background, I was deeply influenced by my…

— Severo Ochoa

In Spain, everything's more tactical, more technical, with more possession. In Germany, it's more physical; it's about the runs you make, the counterattacks, and…

— Thiago Alcantara

I arrived in Spain at three years old when my dad played in Valencia. Then we spent a lot of time in Vigo in…

— Thiago Alcantara

For me, it's a pleasure to play football every three or four days.

— Thiago Alcantara

We have to play football and not talk. We don't talk about politics, the personal opinions, and debates - you take them home. We…

— Thiago Alcantara

I learned to write by writing.

— Neil Gaiman

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

— Louis L'Amour

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than…

— Gayl Jones

“When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I didn't have,…

— Donald Richie

With Bernstein, because we wound up always working music first, it was where I really feel I learned how to write lyrics as a…

— Stephen Schwartz

I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write.

— David O. Russell

“I learned to write nice as hell. Birds an' stuff like that, too; not just word writin'. My ol' man'll be sore when he…

— John Steinbeck

I learned to write by writing. I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and to stop when it…

— Neil Gaiman

I learned that you can't write a book in the margins of your life. I'd forgotten how much uninterrupted time it takes to write…

— Melissa Harris-Perry