Am Quote by Brian K. Vaughan

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

— Christy Leigh Stewart

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

— Anne Carson

I'd like to think I'm not quite so pretentious as to think my characters go off and live their lives once I've written the…

— Jane Green

The same people that always think I'm pretentious will think I'm pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to…

— Bradford Cox

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

— Roger Deakins

“Karma: The delusion of the pretentious; who think the Universe should act as their debt collector.”

— Steve Maraboli

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

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

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

“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