Bedtime stories Quote by J.M. Coetzee

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got to pick what was in them,…

— Caroline Kennedy

“Either he's lying, which is bad. Or he could be telling the truth, which is worse”

— Cinda Williams Chima

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

— Ally Carter

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!

— Abraham Lincoln

I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept…

— Octavia E. Butler

“After listening to everyone rumble with both their pain and their privilege, the white woman who wrote the “you don’t know me” note said,…

— Brené Brown

“It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote the biography…

— Nathanael West

“A pale, bored woman in white ankle-socks and a white tasselled beret was sitting on a bentwood chair at the corner entrance to the…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

One woman wrote a letter to the Federal Communications Commission complaining that I was teaching kids to steal.

— Soupy Sales

For 30 years I wrote for newspapers and magazines, wrote books on the Dallas Cowboys' dynasties of the '70s and '90s, wrote about Michael…

— Skip Bayless

Certain personal issues forced me stay away from movies for a while but that does not mean I was idle and cut away from…

— Balachandra Menon

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five…

— Patti Smith