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MALORIE BLACKMAN You have the same smile, the same shaped eyes, the same way of tilting your head to listen, the same...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I have wisdom of a 60-year-old. Also it takes a lot for me to respect a person, so when a person has...
RANI MUKERJI![]()
Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote...
GLENN GREENWALD Spike Lee is black, successful and intelligent. I wanted my son to hear him talk about courage and r...
KATRINA CARTER I wrote some things down, and we talked a little bit about some different things before the match. W...
FRED RAKERS Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
MALORIE BLACKMAN I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go ba...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not b...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
MALORIE BLACKMAN I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then sud...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
MALORIE BLACKMAN In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adve...
MALORIE BLACKMAN Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about bl...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
MALORIE BLACKMAN I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed....
MALORIE BLACKMAN What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, ta...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I believe each individual can have a say and make a difference.
MALORIE BLACKMAN Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's...
MALORIE BLACKMAN A good book is a good book. End of story.
MALORIE BLACKMAN I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his w...
MALORIE BLACKMAN When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
MALORIE BLACKMAN You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
MALORIE BLACKMAN Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
MALORIE BLACKMAN Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and cons...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
MALORIE BLACKMAN I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A...
MALORIE BLACKMAN History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgroun...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse write...
MALORIE BLACKMAN The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who have...
MALORIE BLACKMAN Just remember, Callum when you’re floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his &...
MALORIE BLACKMAN That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you bel...
MALORIE BLACKMAN For once I didn't look away immediately. I forced myself to meet her contemptuous gaze. I allowed my...
MALORIE BLACKMAN And round and round and round. Why couldn't I get past the letter? Like poison id had seeped into ev...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I wo...
MALORIE BLACKMAN She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can’t get in and she doesn’t come ou...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the sayin...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar not...
MALORIE BLACKMAN You remind me of a boy I used to know
Same Smile, same easy, laid-back style
And man, coul...
MALORIE BLACKMAN The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.
MALORIE BLACKMAN![]()
In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
CATHY GUISEWITE I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be ...
MAX REGER![]()
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
NATASHA TRETHEWEY I wrote what I wanted to read.
ANGELA GREEN![]()
I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.
DANIELLE STEEL I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
KATE ADIE I looked into studying psychoanalysis, wrote to the governing body and was about to start the year w...
NINA CONTI![]()
I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally w...
MITCH HEDBERG They are monsters, Malorie thinks. But she knows they are more than this. They are infinit...
JOSH MALERMAN I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing th...
MARIEL HEMINGWAY I don?t know, I guess life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a de...
ELISABETH ROHM Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL![]()
Before social media, if I, as an individual wanted to publish something to the world, unless I could...
SHERYL SANDBERG![]()
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.![]()
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I ha...
HELEN KELLER I wanted to write about racism and xenophobia in 21st Century England and Ireland, but I wanted to d...
DARREN SHAN![]()
I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I ha...
SIDNEY POITIER I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body th...
JOAN ARK I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body th...
JOAN VAN ARK![]()
Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and ...
CARRIE ANN INABA I still have my basketball legs. I have been trying too hard, too quick. It's kind of a work in prog...
BRAD ORR![]()
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I...
NICHOLSON BAKER I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with s...
SAM BRADFORD When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs w...
WYNTER GORDON![]()
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
TONI MORRISON![]()
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everythin...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA My roommate and a couple of other friends told me about it. I had never shot a gun before, and wante...
AMY MLINAR When writing a new song I like better, it makes me appreciate the song I wrote before that I didn't ...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT My parents raised me with a never-give-up attitude, telling me I could be anything I wanted to be. I...
GRETCHEN CARLSON My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone...
LALAINE![]()
And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to ...
GLORIA VANDERBILT![]()
A lot of hard work putting things behind me, moving forward and realizing I have a bright future and...
WILLIAM GREEN![]()
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about s...
AMOS OZ When I was out there I was never ever alone, there was always a team of people behind me, in mind if...
ELLEN MACARTHUR![]()
I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me -...
CATE TIERNAN![]()
It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and d...
DAVID CASSIDY Yeah, I wanted to put that all behind me, ... I was shutting the book on all that stuff.
JONATHAN KAYE I like the opportunities that a sales profession offers. I have the capacity to work hard and truly ...
TRICIA ERPS I prefer to work with unassailable ideas. And I wanted to do a film about goodness.
LARS VON TRIER![]()
I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.
DINAH SHORE![]()
A lot of you wrote about the fact that I took off a lot of time last summer, that was in part to try...
TOM BROKAW![]()
It occurred to me that the man I really wanted to hurt was safely out of my reach, standing behind a...
STEPHEN KING![]()
Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people t...
JOHNNY WEIR![]()
I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and w...
KATE CHRISTENSEN Checker players used to be upstairs (in the courthouse) especially in the winter, ... Ben Blackman u...
JEFF MULLINS I can't find who wrote this (it was't me)but I think it is great.
Before I was your moth...
BETH LYON BARNETT I got this random CD in the mail -- some guy wrote a song about me,
CAT OSTERMAN Fancy clipped a scrap of newsprint to her canvas and wrote, I don't have friends.
Ilan's...
DIA REEVES![]()
I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's ...
ANDY COHEN I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
FLORENCE WELCH![]()
I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I am free only because my source, my one confidential source, wrote me a personal letter and called ...
JUDITH MILLER I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have ...
MARIEL HEMINGWAY For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. An...
KATE MICUCCI
MALORIE BLACKMAN You have the same smile, the same shaped eyes, the same way of tilting your head to listen, the same...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I have wisdom of a 60-year-old. Also it takes a lot for me to respect a person, so when a person has...
RANI MUKERJI
Even when influential political and media figures vehemently complained about the criticisms I wrote... GLENN GREENWALD Spike Lee is black, successful and intelligent. I wanted my son to hear him talk about courage and r...
KATRINA CARTER I wrote some things down, and we talked a little bit about some different things before the match. W...
FRED RAKERS Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.
MALORIE BLACKMAN I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go ba...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not b...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
MALORIE BLACKMAN I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then sud...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
MALORIE BLACKMAN In a television interview, I said that diversity in our children's books should include the adve...
MALORIE BLACKMAN Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I remember being in a history lesson and saying to my teacher, 'How come you never talk about bl...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I believe we need more culturally diverse books - about disabled characters, though not about their ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
MALORIE BLACKMAN I have encountered those who feel that libraries have served their purpose and are no longer needed....
MALORIE BLACKMAN What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, ta...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I believe each individual can have a say and make a difference.
MALORIE BLACKMAN Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's...
MALORIE BLACKMAN A good book is a good book. End of story.
MALORIE BLACKMAN I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his w...
MALORIE BLACKMAN When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
MALORIE BLACKMAN You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
MALORIE BLACKMAN Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
MALORIE BLACKMAN Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and cons...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
MALORIE BLACKMAN I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A...
MALORIE BLACKMAN History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgroun...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse write...
MALORIE BLACKMAN The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who have...
MALORIE BLACKMAN Just remember, Callum when you’re floating up and up in your bubble, that bubbles have a habit of ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his &...
MALORIE BLACKMAN That just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But don't you bel...
MALORIE BLACKMAN For once I didn't look away immediately. I forced myself to meet her contemptuous gaze. I allowed my...
MALORIE BLACKMAN And round and round and round. Why couldn't I get past the letter? Like poison id had seeped into ev...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I wo...
MALORIE BLACKMAN She stays lost in the middle of her own world somewhere. We can’t get in and she doesn’t come ou...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the sayin...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar not...
MALORIE BLACKMAN You remind me of a boy I used to know
Same Smile, same easy, laid-back style
And man, coul...
MALORIE BLACKMAN The news lies all the time. They tell us what they think we would want to hear.
MALORIE BLACKMAN
In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work. CATHY GUISEWITE I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be ...
MAX REGER
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. NATASHA TRETHEWEY I wrote what I wanted to read.
ANGELA GREEN
I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous. DANIELLE STEEL I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
KATE ADIE I looked into studying psychoanalysis, wrote to the governing body and was about to start the year w...
NINA CONTI
I wrote a letter to my dad, I was going to write 'I really enjoyed being here', but I accidentally w... MITCH HEDBERG They are monsters, Malorie thinks. But she knows they are more than this. They are infinit...
JOSH MALERMAN I wanted out of my pain and that silliness, but I wanted an easy out. That's before realizing th...
MARIEL HEMINGWAY I don?t know, I guess life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a de...
ELISABETH ROHM Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Before social media, if I, as an individual wanted to publish something to the world, unless I could... SHERYL SANDBERG
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
It's wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I ha... HELEN KELLER I wanted to write about racism and xenophobia in 21st Century England and Ireland, but I wanted to d...
DARREN SHAN
I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I ha... SIDNEY POITIER I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body th...
JOAN ARK I loved every minute of being Val but as I said before there were other acting muscles in my body th...
JOAN VAN ARK
Often, I dream about work. For instance, the night before the Oscars, I dreamt about the Oscars and ... CARRIE ANN INABA I still have my basketball legs. I have been trying too hard, too quick. It's kind of a work in prog...
BRAD ORR
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I... NICHOLSON BAKER I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with s...
SAM BRADFORD When I first started, the very first body of music I made when I got signed to Atlantic were songs w...
WYNTER GORDON
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it. TONI MORRISON
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everythin... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA My roommate and a couple of other friends told me about it. I had never shot a gun before, and wante...
AMY MLINAR When writing a new song I like better, it makes me appreciate the song I wrote before that I didn't ...
VALERIE ROSE STERRETT My parents raised me with a never-give-up attitude, telling me I could be anything I wanted to be. I...
GRETCHEN CARLSON My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone...
LALAINE
And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to ... GLORIA VANDERBILT
A lot of hard work putting things behind me, moving forward and realizing I have a bright future and... WILLIAM GREEN
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about s... AMOS OZ When I was out there I was never ever alone, there was always a team of people behind me, in mind if...
ELLEN MACARTHUR
I cared about them. I wanted them to feel better, to live better lives. And then it occurred to me -... CATE TIERNAN
It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and d... DAVID CASSIDY Yeah, I wanted to put that all behind me, ... I was shutting the book on all that stuff.
JONATHAN KAYE I like the opportunities that a sales profession offers. I have the capacity to work hard and truly ...
TRICIA ERPS I prefer to work with unassailable ideas. And I wanted to do a film about goodness.
LARS VON TRIER
I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me. DINAH SHORE
A lot of you wrote about the fact that I took off a lot of time last summer, that was in part to try... TOM BROKAW
It occurred to me that the man I really wanted to hurt was safely out of my reach, standing behind a... STEPHEN KING
Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people t... JOHNNY WEIR
I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and w... KATE CHRISTENSEN Checker players used to be upstairs (in the courthouse) especially in the winter, ... Ben Blackman u...
JEFF MULLINS I can't find who wrote this (it was't me)but I think it is great.
Before I was your moth...
BETH LYON BARNETT I got this random CD in the mail -- some guy wrote a song about me,
CAT OSTERMAN Fancy clipped a scrap of newsprint to her canvas and wrote, I don't have friends.
Ilan's...
DIA REEVES
I started working at Bravo in 2005, when I was offered a job by Lauren Zalaznick, the network's ... ANDY COHEN I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
FLORENCE WELCH
I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right. OSCAR DE LA RENTA I am free only because my source, my one confidential source, wrote me a personal letter and called ...
JUDITH MILLER I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have ...
MARIEL HEMINGWAY For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. An...
KATE MICUCCI
