“Even if I couldn't get my early novels published, I could still write. I went into newspapers, where I got paid to write every day. If there's a better school for would-be novelists, I don't know what it is.”
“All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.”
| Siobhan Fahey, Musician (1957) |
| Colin Firth, Actor (1960) |
| Philip Gilbert Hamerton, Artist (1834) |
| Amy Irving, Actress (1953) |
| Georgia Douglas Johnson, Poet (1880) |
| Randy Johnson, Athlete (1963) |
| Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Politician (1949) |
| Karl Lagerfeld, Designer (1938) |
| Jack Ma, Businessman (1964) |
| John W. Dawson, Politician (1877) |
| Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, Educator (1976) |