I always wanted my work to speak for itself, and have opportunities to do interesting work and not just puff pieces.

- Amanda Fuller

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

- Ann Patchett

I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

- Aby Rosen

My theory on smear pieces is try and win 'em over.

- Aubrey O'Day

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.

- Alexander Herzen

I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.

- Aleksandar Hemon

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.

- Alan Ladd

I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'

- Adrian McKinty

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

- Abbie Cornish

A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces.

- Anthony Trollope

I assemble my ideas in pieces on a computer file, then gradually find a place for them on a piece of scaffolding I erect.

- Alain de Botton

My favourite finds are often antique pieces with a history.

- Alice Temperley

Designers were saying to me that they didn't have a place to sell their special pieces from the runway.

- Aslaug Magnusdottir

As a customer, I would see pieces that I loved and then find out they weren't being made because no store had ordered them.

- Aslaug Magnusdottir

I like to play around with mixing high-end with more affordable pieces.

- Ashley Madekwe

I like pieces that have everyday appeal and can be worn anywhere!

- Ashley Madekwe

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.

- Armistead Maupin

Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise.

- Amy Heckerling

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

- Amber Heard

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

- Alicia Keys