It's difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don't know anybody that's perfect

and doesn't have a zit somewhere.
Gordon Bethune

Somehow, by just continually pestering the general public by appearing on television, they accepted me and wanted more.
Chris Elliott

The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
Mary MacLane

Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right.
Donald Judd

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
Rudy Rucker

A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw

I'm proud of my sexuality.
Adam Lambert

But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.
Tim McGraw

Are we not all desperate one way or another?
Taylor Caldwell

Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
Tahar Ben Jelloun