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.

A. S. Byatt

I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I'm really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.

A Boogie wit da Hoodien

I always looked up to people who did more than just rap or focus on music. I'm inspired by the people who put their different talents to use and turned it into something bigger.

A Boogie wit da Hoodien

I was always writing, since I was, like, 12.

A Boogie wit da Hoodien

You always gonna feel me. That's my main thing. When I'm speaking in my music, you gotta feel me.

A Boogie wit da Hoodien

Everybody was always telling me to rap and freestyle. I used to go to the park and spit on the mic. If I go to the park, they always gonna give me the mic.

A Boogie wit da Hoodien

Growing up in Highbridge was real. Me and all my friends, we never really went to any other places in the Bronx but Highbridge. We always just stayed in Highbridge. It was like territory, to be honest, because Highbridge is like a town.

A Boogie wit da Hoodien

Me and Tory Lanez got good chemistry together. We could make a song so easy, but we always like to figure out what we're really doing. We can make a good song, but it gotta make sense.

A Boogie wit da Hoodien

I'm terribly prone to anxiety. I get very depressed and I get very anxious and my anxiety is almost always about my children.

A. A. Gill

The one thing politicians will always vote for is more politics, so in 2000 they invented the post of mayor of London without ever really thinking what it was a mayor would do.

A. A. Gill

I've often been accused of dressing too well. I've always been fascinated by fashion, though I don't think I'm particularly fashionable.

A. A. Gill

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.

A. A. Milne

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

A. B. Yehoshua

In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.

A. Balasubramaniam

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

A. E. Housman

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

A. E. Housman

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

A. E. Housman

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

A. J. Liebling

Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.

A. J. McLean

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

A. J. P. Taylorburak