Anne Enright
Anne Enright

There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away until they are all grown up and ready to read them without being smitten.

Anthony Marra
Anthony Marra

I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death.

Bjarke Ingels
Bjarke Ingels

I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School of Architecture. But then I really got smitten by architecture.

Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.

Clive Sinclair
Clive Sinclair

In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.

David Jason
David Jason

In 1977, while I was performing in a play in Cardiff, a friend introduced me to a striking redhead called Myfanwy Talog, famed for her appearances on Welsh television with the comedy duo Rees and Ronnie. We were instantly smitten and eventually moved in together, sharing 18 happy years.

David Otunga
David Otunga

When I look someone in the eye, they are immediately smitten with me.

Ed Westwick
Ed Westwick

I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.

Gail Simmons
Gail Simmons

I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.

Isoroku Yamamoto
Isoroku Yamamoto

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.