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		One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Meg Cabot 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taylour Paige 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Irwin Thomas 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Uma Thurman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Aykroyd 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Barry Hannah 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yehuda Amichai 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		When you make a mistake, the ocean gives you an instant reminder. You get punished. If golf clubs could shock you every time you hit the ball wrong, we'd probably learn how to play golf pretty well. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laird Hamilton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. D. Salinger 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If you're doing something wrong, you deserve to be caught. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jerry Reinsdorf 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dan Pink 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karin Slaughter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of the reasons that I think I do love to write is because I did have a difficult childhood and not so great teenage years. It always helped me escape from my problems. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Meg Cabot