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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

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It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.

Meg Tilly

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My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

Judith Rossner

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I took part in what was actually the last eruption of Marxist internationalism.

Christopher Hitchens

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I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

Mickey Rooney

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I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.

Mitch Hedberg

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The first book I could call mine, my first book, was a picture book, 'The Magic Monkey' - it was adapted from an old Chinese legend by a thirteen-year-old prodigy named Plato Chan with the help of his sister.

Nick Flynn

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Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

Truman Capote

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The Knicks left me open a lot of times the last time we played them, and I was just making sure I took the shots that were there.

Reggie Lewis

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I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

Ian Rankin

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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.

Seth Godin

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I don't know if we'd have been as dominant as we were last season. The new things, the new ideas the manager brought in everyone took them on board so well. He is special.

Frank Lampard

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For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

James M. Barrie

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Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

Mickey Spillane

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But, when I was about thirteen, I began to sort of sing in my neighborhood.

Ruben Blades

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I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.

Thom Gunn

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I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth birthday. I started taking lessons when I was thirteen, but only for a few months, and then I just kept teaching myself.

Alessia Cara

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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.

Imelda May

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The Department of Defense took 40 years to get where it got.

Michael Chertoff

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It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.

Louise Brown

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