Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
“I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble.”
As quoted in "You Ask The Questions" in The Independent http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20020912/ai_n12647620 (12 September 2002)
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Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist
Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire (1998), Chapter 7.
Tomás Rivera (1935–1984) American academic
On his wanting to become a writer at an early age in " From Poverty to Power: The Inspiring Story of Tomas Rivera http://www.teenink.com/nonfiction/academic/article/778847/From-Poverty-to-Power-The-Inspiring-Story-of-Tomas-Rivera" (TeenInk)
“Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Vanishing Acts
“That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing.”
V.S. Naipaul (1932–2018) Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Nepalese ancestry
"Two Worlds," Nobel lecture (7 December 2001) http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2001/naipaul-lecture-e.html <br class="br">Context: I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true. It might seem strange that a man who has dealt in words and emotions and ideas for nearly fifty years shouldn't have a few to spare, so to speak. But everything of value about me is in my books. Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will — with luck — come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing.
“I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.”
Kurt Cobain book Journals
Source: Journals (2002), p. 124