Raina Telgemeier quote: "Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile."

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JENNIFER CHIAVERINI

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BECKY G

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AMISHA PATEL

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BILLY SHEEHAN

I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that h...
ASHWIN SANGHI

Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many t...
JILL PATON WALSH

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything wort...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

Everyday reminds me the good memories we used to share, but it's also everyday that keeps reminding ...
JERICO TAN JJ

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KATE VOEGELE

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ME

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ME

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ME :)

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ME

I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Becau...
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DEEPIKA PADUKONE

My dad swims with me in the morning. He swims with old buddies of his. I've always had connections w...
JAKE EDWARDS

My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectl...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

I am never alone, the pages of a book keeps me my mind occupied.
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For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my...
SHAHZIA SIKANDER

If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me - I will not just going to sit at my d...
BARBARA EHRENREICH

For the first four years of my life, while he lived, I was not Ti Jean Duluoz, I was Gerard, the wor...
JACK KEROUAC

It's the spirit of Seton that keeps me going. They're my family.
KIT MONTZ

My daily thoughts are vibrationally connected to the universal forces that surround me.
DEBBIE A. ANDERSON

Those meetings are so good. It keeps me proud and keeps my resentment down. It reminds me of why we ...
MEGAN MIRES

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SEANAN MCGUIRE

There's always been in my life that tension between living and writing. For me, because I'm ...
PETER HELLER

I can't drown my demons, they know how to swim"
BRING ME THE HORIZON

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GARY BARLOW

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ALAN THICKE

The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
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GEORGINA BLOOMBERG

I thought depression was the part of my character that made me worthwhile. I thought so little of my...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

It keeps me up at night with all that's going on these days. The online world is turning into such a...
ARISTOTLE BALOGH

The sky is always there for me, while my life has been going through many, many changes. When I look...
YOKO ONO

I get so many big ideas while I'm running and such clarity while I'm lifting weights. And st...
ROBIN S. SHARMA

It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new ...
GARY BURTON

My mom keeps me grounded and all that. She makes me do chores.
AULI'I CRAVALHO

My autobiography now offers me the chance to lay down my life story and place recent events in prope...
PETE TOWNSHEND

All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE

I think of some of my friends who have passed to the spirit world but are who here with me when I go...
WINONA LADUKE

My fan mail is what keeps me going.
LIL' KIM

There have been a lot of events that have made me really look at the real world, like September 11th...
MAE WHITMAN

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BRIAN LUCAS

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FERNANDO PESSOA

Never let it be said that Harry Dresden is afraid of a dried, dead bug. Creepy or not, I wasn't goin...
JIM BUTCHER

I will tell my story, and my reader shall judge for me. I will tell my story, and so contrive to pas...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

All the exhausting aspects of my job are made worthwhile because I get to experience so many differe...
ALEK WEK

My mom keeps me going, man. She deserves such a good life. I just wanna give it to her. My dad, too....
BIG SEAN

When I first began working on my Lincoln book, nearly a decade ago, he generously invited me to his ...
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.
WAYNE DYER

We have so many disagreements, I know you're not going to take me at my word on anything.
SEAN BERKOWITZ

I use many props. The props act as cue cards reminding me of what to say next.
TOM OGDEN

I travel all over the world doing seminars and giving speeches, and I am completely amazed that in s...
JEFF DOYLE

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ROBERT DUVALL

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CHRISTIE BRINKLEY

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, ...
NAVEEN ANDREWS

My mother keeps me abreast of all the hometown things.
FAITH FORD

I'd be so happy to be sitting at my desk, eating a Pop-Tart and keying away, ... Nothing would pleas...
RAY BURROWS

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee, a sort of wager on my part.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the book...
RACHEL GIBSON

what keeps me going is the fact that there is someone out there who wants to be in my "shoes"..yes,m...
PHILLIP BUYONDO

The one important factor that keeps me going is the kind of people I work with.
KUMAR MANGALAM BIRLA

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IGOR KOVALEVSKY

Don't ever think that regret is always a mistake, and mistake is always a regret because one day, Yo...
KENT SOLATORIO LOPEZ

Strength is not a trait, it's a choice.
BETHANY D HEAD

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
TAMA JANOWITZ

I was very lucky to befriend many authors before even signing with an agent, and they were all so su...
ADAM SILVERA

My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in ou...
KERRI WALSH JENNINGS

All characters and events in this book are made up. If some of them seem familiar, it’s because so...
STEPHEN MINKIN

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Many companies today are reducing hours of full-time people to get under the minimum so they don'...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN

Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE

Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if ...
JUDY BLUME

I faced Chris Carpenter in my last start, and he's probably going to win the Cy Young Award, so it d...
IAN SNELL

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly rem...
GIL SCOTT-HERON

I love helping people. It did give me the feeling that keeps me going.
VIRGILIO CASTRO

Jane: "Missy was not so subtly reminding me that she had done something nice for me and here i was b...
MOLLY HARPER

All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION

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COLSON WHITEHEAD

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KATJA MILLAY

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MARTIN TERMAN

The ways that my dogs can make me - and my visitors - happy constantly amazes me.
ANDREW WEIL

That he dedicated to me so many hours and this was extraordinary I am happy that this was poss...
HANS KUENG

That he dedicated to me so many hours ? and this was extraordinary ? I am happy that this was possib...
HANS KUENG

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to...
RAINA TELGEMEIER

I know how long it takes me to draw a page, how long it takes me to complete a project, how long I c...
RAINA TELGEMEIER

When I sit down to begin penciling a page, most of the hard work for me is done. I can concentrate s...
RAINA TELGEMEIER

I prefer drawing the things I've written to handing them off to another artist. Turns out I'...
RAINA TELGEMEIER

Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue...
RAINA TELGEMEIER

New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up w...
RAINA TELGEMEIER

I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I wo...
RAINA TELGEMEIER

Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, a...
RAINA TELGEMEIER

When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goo...
RAINA TELGEMEIER

I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trend...
RAINA TELGEMEIER

I was kind of a cross between Kristy and Mary Anne among 'The Baby-Sitters Club' characters....
RAINA TELGEMEIER

I've always believed in working hard, and I'm grateful that people seem to connect with the ...
RAINA TELGEMEIER

All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading ha...
RAINA TELGEMEIER

Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.

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Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.

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