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John Grisham Quote: 'Writing was not a childhood dream ...'

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My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.


Godfrey Gao
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
Andrew Wiles
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My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.
Grant Gustin
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If I could perform on stage with any musical act or performer, it would be Sugar Ray, just to fulfill my childhood dream of singing with Mark McGrath.
Chelsea Kane
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I don't reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn't. It was a pipe dream.
Sarah Hall
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After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
Vikram Seth
Tags: Never Even Myself
Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong.
Arthur Phillips
I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.
Kathy Acker
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.


Laila Robins
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From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
Bernard Berenson
I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours. I do like to write in the morning. I start after breakfast, like 9 o'clock, and I'll write till lunch, about 1. And after lunch, I just have fun.
Eve Bunting
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
J. A. Jance
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Writing is a great love of mine.


Micky Dolenz
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children are so mysterious and puzzling and even paradoxical.
Alison Gopnik
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I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.
Donald McKay
Tags: Me Just Then
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I wanna do Broadway one day in New York. That would be an ultimate dream of mine.


Jessica Lowndes
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Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
Emma Thompson
I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.
Jacqueline Woodson
Tags: Get Out Know
Your subconscious mind is trying to help you all the time. That's why I keep a journal - not for chatter but for mostly the images that flow into the mind or little ideas. I keep a running journal, and I have all of my life, so it's like your gold mine when you start writing.
Jim Harrison
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You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?


Hill Harper
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