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Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night. ABOUT LIFE
I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too. ABOUT LIFE
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo... ABOUT LIFE
At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering
my petunias, and thinking of noth... EDMOND ABOUT I think most people who write want to write, so that's what they do, ... I hope that this is a book ...
LAURA EVANS
When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as... JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE
I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I th... ACE FREHLEY I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
PAUL HAGGIS
I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make m... NEIL GAIMAN I want to put all my efforts into the Commonwealth Games. The World Indoors would be more of a greed...
JADE JOHNSON Bound by custom or unique by choice.
MARGARET MCHEYZER
In the East, fames are won.In the west, deeds are done.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation. ROGER SCRUTON
I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices. BILL COSBY
But it just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
KATE ADIE
I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. HILAIRE BELLOC
I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It w... GLEN DUNCAN I then plan to seclude myself and write a book about my experience,
ERIC LATHAM I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which ...
DARRELL HAMMOND I had to make some order out of all this paper. That's why it took years to write this book.
LOUISE BORDEN When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big ...
JUDY BLUME It really made me think about why everybody around me went and I didn't.
PREITY ZINTA For me it isn't about the money or the greed, it's always been about the medals.
JADE JOHNSON
if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a ten... ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I never start out with any kind of connecting theme or plan. Everything just falls the way it falls.... ALICE MUNRO
If they want to write about me in a good way, they should write how I do things that are useful. BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ
Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made... HARUKI MURAKAMI
I resent people who say writers write from experience. Writers don't write from experience, though m... NIKKI GIOVANNI I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE
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If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché? CASSANDRA CLARE
John Updike, in that book you gave me, he said the dead make space. Do you know what I think? Updike... LAURA LIPPMAN
Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about i... TOM PETERS What I think is so special about this honor is its not so much about the records and championships b...
MARGIE WRIGHT
There are always new things to experience, internalize then write about. This process is ongoing wit... GRAHAM NASH When it comes to healing, its all about me.
JIM GENOVESE I write about personal experiences. I write about things that have happened to me and the people aro...
JAMES BAY I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can'...
CAROLINE LEAVITT When Sven said about me not being on top form I think he is right, ... It is early in the season and...
FRANK LAMPARD You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I prac...
MARY ROACH It was like a 1930s comic book set in the future. I can't say what it was, but there was something a...
JOEL SILVER
What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't thi... CAROL BURNETT
All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when ... SHAMEIK MOORE The drive, the ambition, the art; it all comes to me when I close my eyes and think about the sacrif...
FORREST CURRAN While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excit...
HAKAN NESSER I can't say enough good things about John. I don't know how they are going to replace him, and I thi...
DON SHELDON They're going to end up - I don't want to think about it; it haunts me.
CJ JONES I think it would be fun to write about movies again.
BILL CONDON
I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignor... WILBUR SMITH I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'...
ERIC BROWN At the end of the day, all I can be is me. I'm not John Cena. In my 30 years, I've never bee...
ROMAN REIGNS I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, a...
CHARLES MCCARRY Yankee Stadium. Things go on here. You can write a book about it.
ANDY PETTITTE This case is really about avarice, it's about greed, and it's about human frailty.
FRAN HUMPHRIES
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. BENJAMIN DISRAELI I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and th...
DAMIEN RICE [A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told th...
TRACY HICKMAN I want to write a best-selling book.
DIANE ABBOTT
My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kenned... DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN Amadu is all about the family. I've never known love like that before, and it made me think, ...
BILLIE PIPER
I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm goin... CHARLI XCX I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.
MATHIAS MALZIEU
Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14... AVI
It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me. KARL ROVE (John) Daly has made some higher numbers than me. I didn't think anyone would ever break this record...
ROBERT GAMEZ I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'...
MARK BILLINGHAM
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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. 
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Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good. 
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The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... 
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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? 
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