Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician
On the music press
KSCA interview (1996)
Interview with DJ Ron Slomowicz at About.com http://dancemusic.about.com/od/artistshomepages/a/LadyGagaInt_2.htm
Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician
On the music press
KSCA interview (1996)
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Julie Barenson, Chapter 15, p. 163
2000s, The Guardian (2003)
Tayari Jones (1970) American writer
Source: On how she chose the topic of mass incarceration for her novel An American Marriage in “If I Can’t Cry, Nobody Cries: An Interview with Tayari Jones” https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/08/cant-cry-nobody-cries-interview-tayari-jones/ in The Paris Review (2018 Feb 8)
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
The Paris Review interview (2010)
Context: Our education system has gone to hell. It’s my idea from now on to stop spending money educating children who are sixteen years old. We should put all that money down into kindergarten. Young children have to be taught how to read and write. If children went into the first grade knowing how to read and write, we’d be set for the future, wouldn’t we? We must not let them go into the fourth and fifth grades not knowing how to read. So we must put out books with educational pictures, or use comics to teach children how to read. When I was five years old, my aunt gave me a copy of a book of wonderful fairy tales called Once Upon a Time, and the first fairy tale in the book is “Beauty and the Beast.” That one story taught me how to read and write because I looked at the picture of that beautiful beast, but I so desperately wanted to read about him too.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1860s, On The Choice Of Books (1866)
Billy the Kid (1859–1881) American cattle rustler, gambler, horse thief, outlaw, cowboy and ranch hand
Billy the Kid's comment to a Las Vegas Gazette reporter (December, 1880)<br> About Billy the Kid website http://www.aboutbillythekid.com/index.html
“I am less than what you tell about me but more than what you think about me”
Ali book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
Context: A man sarcastically started praising Imam Ali, though he had no faith in him and Imam Ali hearing these praises from him said "I am less than what you tell about me but more than what you think about me."