“Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.”
“As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.”
| Dianna Agron, Actress (1986) |
| Hosea Ballou, Clergyman (1771) |
| Lloyd Banks, Musician (1982) |
| Jane Campion, Director (1954) |
| Duane G. Carey, Astronaut (1957) |
| Johnny Galecki, Actor (1975) |
| Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician (1777) |
| Stephen Harper, Politician (1959) |
| Kaspar Hauser, Celebrity (1812) |
| Cloris Leachman, Actress (1926) |
| George Balanchine, Dancer (1983) |
| Lester Bangs, Critic (1982) |
| Alben W. Barkley, Vice President (1956) |
| Sarah Josepha Hale, Writer (1879) |