Long Quote by Ted Turner

“Beware of those who speak negatively about everything and everybody. A negative person will never say a positive thing about you.”

— Suzy Kassem

“I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it.”

— Mike Birbiglia

“Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me.”

— Octavia E. Butler

“Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Noughts... Even the word was negative. Nothing. Nil. Zero. Nonentities. It wasn't a name we'd chosen for ourselves. It was a name we'd been…

— Malorie Blackman

“Well, I was done hiding, hating, or apologizing for the parts of me I hadn't chosen and couldn't change. If some people had a…

— Jeaniene Frost

“You could always tell how much trouble you were in by how much someone stretched your name when they said it.”

— Janus Lucky

“Names are important as they tell you a great deal about a person. I’ve had more names than anyone has a right to.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence…

— Ernest Hemingway

“But I am a writer, and I deal in words, and I need to have them spelled out for me--precisely.”

— Sydney Jane Baily

“I didn't like people knowing things about me. I wasn't embarrassed by my past, because it couldn't be helped, but people were cruel and…

— Lynda LeeAnne

“I tried my best to pretend unkind words were actually just erroneously expressed compliments, as it just made everything nicer for everybody.”

— Penny Reid