A'Lelia Bundles
A'Lelia Bundles

If a CEO takes an interest in you and he happens to be an Asian man, then that's great, but as an African-American woman, you want to make sure that if the executive vice-president of the company is an African-American woman that you get to know her.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Being able to afford everything you desire is not, by any means, the worst thing that can happen to you. But, depressingly, and more profoundly, neither is it the best.

A. A. Gill
A. A. Gill

Texting isn't writing. It's not like letter writing. Texting is short scriptwriting. It's a collaborative soap opera where nothing happens.

A. J. McLean
A. J. McLean

Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.

A. J. P. Taylor
A. J. P. Taylor

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like.

A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.