Figures Quote by Monica Ali

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his…

— Anonymous

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

— Marisha Pessl

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to…

— Sylvia Plath

We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously.

— Paul Auster

People have asked me about playing outsiders. I don't consider myself an outsider. Maybe that's why I'm interested in that. I'm not really sure.

— Paul Dano

Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew…

— Laura Esquivel

I never thought of myself as an outsider. Because outside of what? You would have to give advantage to this space where you're not,…

— Aleksandar Hemon

Donald Trump is sort of the first candidate of his type that non-politician, true outsider, was coming to shake up the system.

— Kellyanne Conway

I've always felt myself to be an outsider. I've always felt awkward.

— Jeremy Paxman

How many times have we brought in an outsider to tell us what we already knew?

— Peter Block

I cannot imagine anyone being more of an outsider than the first woman president.

— Hillary Clinton

I've always - and not always happily - considered myself an outsider. Certainly at Fettes. And then the Scots are always outsiders in England.…

— Angus Deaton