A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Men and women understand different things about personal boundaries. What men call privacy, women know as secrecy.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

A. B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua

I was proud my father spoke Arabic fluently - his father sent him to learn Arabic from a sheikh - and we had Arab friends. His task of understanding the Arabs - not only politics but poetry - was very important; he took it as a vocation.

A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

A. R. Rahman
A. R. Rahman

I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.

A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.