It’s odd, subtle, and pretentious. I like it!..

I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.

— Sue Townsend

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

— Harrison Birtwistle

I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned…

— Yael Naim

I'm very proud of myself on my, whatever the literacy is, I'm pretentious, totally pretentious. I like to say 'hmm', for example.

— Tom Lehrer

This is going to sound pretentious, but I like comedy that addresses something I find either worrisome or interesting in my life.

— Zach Woods

I think to have a regular job and be a mom is not as, of course there are challenges, but it's not like being…

— Gwyneth Paltrow

“Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from…

— Anonymous

If we wanted to make it the way I imagined I knew that we would have to wake up earlier and start very early.…

— Luc Besson

“Lord Malquist and Mr Moon was the literary equivalent of the Wonderbra for intellectually pretentious students of the seventies.”

— Linda Grant

I made a choice that I was not going to be a pretentious writer.

— Janet Evanovich

Slade was never pretentious. It was just music to them. Pop, rock, soul…it was all the same to Slade. They wrote great songs. And,…

— Noel Gallagher

“What if this is a horrible mistake?" I croaked. "Oh, it'll be horrible fine, just a bunch of pretentious rich people with shelves of…

— Ruta Sepetys

Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean…

— Gary Shteyngart

Sometimes I might go too far with the pretentious references, which I might not do again. But when you're writing, you're sitting alone in…

— John Michael McDonagh

“A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.”

— Christy Leigh Stewart