Angry Quote by Kathleen Hanna

When I look back, there are various things I did that make me cringe. But then I'm sure that in my sixties I'll look…

— Gillian Anderson

Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

— Madonna Ciccone

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

— Larry David

All of a sudden, when you're exposed to a large audience, they think you just started writing that day, but I started years before.…

— David Sedaris

I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and…

— Samantha Shannon

When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is…

— Ben Marcus

I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they were, so…

— Hampton Fancher

I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started…

— Cliff Curtis

I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized…

— Stephen King

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

— Tennessee Williams

I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used…

— Madonna Ciccone

Poetry has never been written with the intention of making young people irritated, bored, anxious or humiliated, and yet the consequence of the test…

— Michael Rosen