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“I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.”
“Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.”
| Diane Ackerman, Poet (1948) |
| Sherman Alexie, Writer (1966) |
| Henry Alford, Clergyman (1810) |
| June Allyson, Actress (1917) |
| Amiri Baraka, Poet (1934) |
| Cotton Fitzsimmons, Coach (1931) |
| Clive James, Writer (1939) |
| Elizabeth Janeway, Author (1913) |
| William Samuel Johnson, Politician (1727) |
| Thomas Keneally, Novelist (1935) |
| Wally George, Celebrity (2003) |
| Natalia Ginzburg, (1991) |
| Radclyffe Hall, Poet (1943) |
| Johnny Kidd, Musician (1966) |