Children S Literature

🇬🇧Emma Thompson

Entertainment

b. 1959

"P.S. Managed to avoid the hoyden Emily Thompkinson, who has purloined my creation and added things of her own. Nefarious Creature!"

🇦🇺P. L. Travers

Literature

1899–1996

"I make a point of writing, if only a little, every day, as a kind of discipline so that it is not a whim but a piece of work."

🇬🇧Alan Coren

Journalism

1938–2007

"Apart from cheese and tulips, the main product of the country is advocaat, a drink made from lawyers."

🇺🇸Adrianne Wadewitz

Music

1977–2014

"Wikipedia needs to recruit women, yes, but, more importantly, it needs to recruit feminists. And feminists can be of any gender."

🇺🇸Chelsea Clinton

Politics

b. 1980

"Co-signed as an American. We should expect all elected officials, regardless of party, and all public figures to not traffic in anti-Semitism."

🇺🇸Stephan Pastis

Law

b. 1968

"When you’re a cartoonist, you sort of have to be, like, sensitive – or maybe open’s a better word – to what’s going on around you. When you’re an attorney, you’re just like a bulldog with your head down."

🇺🇸X. J. Kennedy

Literature

1929–2026

"I am one of the endangered species: people who still write in meter and rime."

🇫🇷Anna Letitia Barbauld

Literature

1743–1825

"Selections from the Spectator, Tatler, Guardian and Freeholder at google books"

🇺🇸Lucille Clifton

Literature

1936–2010

"One thing poetry teaches us, if anything, is that everything is connected…There is so much history that we have not validated."

🇺🇸Ken Schoolland

Economics

b. 1950

"Ken Schoolland at the Hawaii Pacific University Website"

🇺🇸Richard Adams

Literature

1920–2016

"Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?"

🇺🇸Louise Erdrich

Literature

b. 1954

"To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human."

Hans Christian Andersen

Literature

Romanticism

1805–1875

"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."

🇬🇧Michael Morpurgo

Literature

b. 1943

"I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less."

🇳🇿William Joyce

Literature

b. 1957

"A Note on the Mid Back Slack Unrounded Vowel in the English of Today"

🇺🇸E. Lockhart

Literature

b. 1967

"He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee. I could have looked at him forever."

🇵🇹Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Literature

1919–2004

"Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen at Poetry International Web"