Nothing, I find, has prepared me for the sight of my own characters walking about. A playwright or screenwriter must expect it; a novelist doesn’t and naturally concludes that she has gone mad. – Susanna Clarke
My daughter is a real migraine sufferer; the minute she has a handful of Haribo sweets, she gets a headache. There’s a connection between what the liver can’t break down with what goes on to trigger a headache. You just have to be aware. – Sheherazade Goldsmith
I have had someone ask me to sign their ‘Team Taylor’ panties. She wasn’t a teenager. She was in her 40s. – Taylor Lautner
Sally Gardner must drive her publishers to distraction: no sooner have they worked out how to market one brilliant book than she delivers another that is just as brilliant but totally different. – Tony Bradman
The teenager’s room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect. – Susan Minot
I said to Ruth Rendell, ‘When you’ve written as many books as you have, it’s easier.’ She said, ‘No dear, it gets harder’. – Val McDermid
My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her. – Sandra Lerner
Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female – whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male. – Simone de Beauvoir
China more than two milleniums ago had already considered the idea of democracy, but at that time she could not put it into operation. – Sun Yat-sen
I can’t stand Beyonce. The way she sells it so hard, constantly. Everything is shoved right in your face. Like, you don’t have the sense to make a judgment of your own. – Todd Rundgren
Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house. – Steven Gaines
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. – William Gibson
I look at Liv Tyler and think ‘It’s not fair’, because I can’t find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it’s really not fair. – Tori Spelling
I like Jay-Z. I love Luda. I love Ledisi. I like Beyonce, of course. I think she’s just brilliant. She’s a triple threat. But my favorite – my all-time rapper is Tupac. See, I could have been Tupac’s girlfriend. – Stephanie Mills
My grandmother’s house – she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn’t have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold. – Willard Scott
And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years. – Val Guest
I’m not really as cool and collected as ‘Mrs. Funnybones’, but she is the woman I want to be. – Twinkle Khanna
You can’t hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she’s still on TV. – T-Pain
Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected. – William Glasser
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. – Thomas Mann
Sometimes in a restaurant you’ll see a lady dressed very nice, she picks up a menu or something… a little fan is always a little bit nice. – Tina Turner
My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother. – Siobhan Fallon Hogan
I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing. – Scott Speedman
I got a call from the Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah had chosen Spanx as one of her favorite products in 2000. I had boxes of product in my apartment and I had two weeks notice that she was going to say she loved it on TV and I had no shipping department. – Sara Blakely
I look up to Martha Stewart, and I love that she has product lines that are true extensions of her brand. – Tyra Banks