Class Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

In high school, I got into a speech class run by a nun who used to put on plays. She put me in a…

— Ed O'Neill

I wrote books to entertain. I'm not trying to teach anything! If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be…

— Beverly Cleary

My students often say, 'My roommate read this story and really liked it,' and it's hard to convince them that there are things wrong…

— Joyce Carol Oates

When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given…

— Jello Biafra

One of my favorite stories is, I got fired off 'Bionic Woman' in part because I was told that I don't know how to…

— Laeta Kalogridis

I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.

— Lily Koppel

Sometimes I'll say, "I wrote that book," and the person will look at you as if you're really strange. One time that happened to…

— Judy Blume

“When I arrived back at Intro to Basic Art again later that week, I thought for a moment we had a new student who…

— J.M. Richards

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

— Ian Mcewan

“Her father had never bothered with books, but when his daughter sat reading the newspaper at the age of five he wasn’t so stupid…

— Fredrik Backman

“Mary sat, quiet and attentive and blank. It wasn't like talking to a dumb seventh-grader, it was like talking to a pancake.”

— Robert B. Parker

You know, I'm trying to sometimes sit down and write some stories about my childhood and maybe one when I'm an old lady put…

— Shelby Lynne