“I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air—the rather nauseating stench of appeasement.”
Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108234 On a parliament debate about the Gulf War <br class="br">Third term as Prime Minister
“A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.”
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
Nobel Prize Speech (1954)
“To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer’s identity.”
Dana Gioia (1950) American writer
"Being a California Poet" http://www.danagioia.net/essays/ecalifornia.htm (1999) , from My California: Journeys by Great Writers, ed. Donna Wares (2004) <br class="br">Essays
Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Book One, Chapter XIII.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book One
Gary Soto (1952) American poet and writer
[Often my characters—a Jesus, a Hector, a Gloria—will be bilingual, or if not bilingual at least know enough Spanish to throw words and phrases into conversation.]<br><br>On his characters being bilingual in “In-depth Written Interview with Gary Soto” https://www.teachingbooks.net/interview.cgi?a=1&id=47 in Teaching Books (2007 Aug 29)
“I counted two and seventy stenches,
All well defined, and several stinks.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
" Cologne http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Cologne.html" (1828)
“And what of home — how goes it, boys,
While we die here in stench and noise?”
Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
"Country At War"
Country Sentiment (1920)
“I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.”
Maeve Binchy (1940–2012) Irish novelist
When asked about her influences. guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jun/10/maevebinchy
Clarence Thomas (1948) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
