Barbara Holland Quotes
A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
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Mental attitude and concentration are the keys to pitching.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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I've never experienced writer's block. When it's going really well, my body temperature goes up, and I'm flushed. I get quite delirious.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified.
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My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.
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Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.
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My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the acting bug. Bless them.
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There were schools and hospitals who were ready to take people with undescribed injuries, but not necessarily ready to take people with severe radiation poisoning.
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A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
