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I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

— Leo Sayer

Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and the bigoted…

— Richard Bausch

I absolutely wasn't going to write a book if it was just going to be about punk.

— Viv Albertine

“I'm living in this world. I'm what, a slacker? A "twentysomething"? I'm in the margins. I'm not building a wall but making a brick.…

— Richard Linklater

“Everyone thought in the early days of punk, certainly once English punk got going, and even American punk, everyone thought it was a horrible…

— Legs McNeil

Richard Hofstadter, in his famous book which was written in the time of the McCarthy period in the 1950 and 1960s, Anti-intellectualism in American…

— Joan Wallach Scott

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be…

— Stephen King

I knew if I evoked that stuff too easily or gratuitously, as a way of assuaging my fears of not being edgy or whatever,…

— George Saunders

I'm ashamed and embarrassed to say that I've read very little of David Foster Wallace's work. It's a huge gap in my education, one…

— Ben Fountain

The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on a dim and perilous way!

— William Wordsworth

At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash daily and…

— H. L. Mencken