Being Quote by Melvyn Bragg

I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's…

— Kathleen Hanna

You can still have comedy which is sensitive to the topic, where you're laughing at the right part of it, you're not mocking the…

— Rachel Parris

Several people, not just reviewers, took me to task for writing about what they called the working classes - something I've been doing for…

— Martin Amis

I've been mocked a lot. I've been made fun of, you know, of the standards that I keep out, and that I hold out…

— Josh Turner

“But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong…

— George Orwell

No one has a copyright on working-class struggles.

— Boots Riley

I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are sometimes called…

— P. G. Wodehouse

“Mockers are cynical, critical, condescending, and controlling. You always feel off balance around them. You never know where you stand. They always try to…

— Andy Stanley

Writers take words seriously-perhaps the last professional class that does-and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless…

— John Updike

I never knew a mocker who was not mocked, a deceiver who was not deceived, or a proud man who was not humbled.

— Marguerite de Navarre

I love the working class, and everyone from it that I've met, and think they're incredible witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry…

— Martin Amis

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

— Paul Fry