Documenting trips makes them that much richer. I stick in train tickets and business cards from restaurants. It makes the whole experience poetic... →
Hayley Atwell
Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
Margaret Atwood
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means... →
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
W. H. Auden
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to... →
Jane Austen
Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So... →
Paul Auster
I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.
Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth... →
Emilie Autumn
All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!
Emanuel Ax
I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
Dan Aykroyd