"Michael Jordan was a tremendous basketball player."

“I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.”

“What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.”

Source : Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.70, Sheba Blake Publishing

“I know I’m an African-American, and I know I play the saxophone, but I’m not a jazz musician. I’m not a classical musician, either. My music is like my life: It’s in between these areas.”

“Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.”

“A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order; it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.”

“I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.”

Source : "Balanced?". Interview with Stevie Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

“My personal style is really comfy: flats, tennis shoes, ponytails, no makeup,”

Source : "Kristin Bauer Van Straten, ‘True Blood’ Star, On Not Being As Glamorous As Pam" by Erica Cheung, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.

“I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.”