Blamed Quote by Colson Whitehead

“I couldn't be certain whether their eagerness to leave was fueled by their desire to see more fire or to get away from my…

— Heather James

Television is simultaneously blamed, often by the same people, for worsening the world and for being powerless to change it.

— Clive James

“I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their…

— Na'ama Yehuda

You can have a poem like "B-Movie" and sum up thirty conversations that people have had on the subject, but I wrote it down,…

— Gil Scott-Heron

“As Germaine Greer wrote, what these people really love and do best is pandemonium.”

— Richard Dawkins

When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was writing plays…

— Eamonn Walker

In the '70s and '80s, if you said you wrote for 'the people,' that meant you weren't any good. But I think that's changing.

— Mack Wilberg

“There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“She hated official letters. They made her feel nervous. The people who wrote them sounded like they had filing cabinets where their hearts should…

— Katherine Rundell

I read American sagas (of the west) and I do not see people who went in search of material things. I see people who…

— Alan Keyes

I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did…

— Ned Vizzini

Loads of people wrote me off.

— Dereck Chisora