C. S. Forester Quotes
I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
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I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I like music a lot.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.
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I tend to lean toward romance, characters, and relationships when I write, so I have to add to the setting elements and world-building when I revise.
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There's really no secret about our approach. We keep moving forward - opening up new doors and doing new things - because we're curious. And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. We're always exploring and experimenting. We call it Imagineering - the blending of creative and imagination with technical know-how.
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It's been a good exposure for them to see the process and see the show.
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The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
