Gloucester's not some chi-chi tourist town. It's a working-class seaport: a no-kidding-around down-and-dirty place.
France is very welcoming to foreign writers.
The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction.
It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
I grew up as a country boy.
I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
The Afro-American is not a bestial race.
The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.
I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.
Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.
Immigration is a gateway basically. It's a check-off point for Latino voters.
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
I grew up in a household that was very left wing.
Unions did in fact build the middle class. And here's what that did. That built the United States of America as we know it.
I've got 11 brothers and sisters.
There is a level of appreciation for brothers and sisters in the hood.