Anita Desai
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when I was asked, "What is love?"
I answered, "Love is an illusion."
Ev... DANI MROUE I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life. JACKIE WALORSKI I've been cycling ever since I was a kid. I remember taking my cycling proficiency test aged sev... ERIN O'CONNOR MARK WAHLBERG I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when ... TODD PHILLIPS CARL LEWIS VANILLA ICE I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers wh... JEFFREY BERNARD PAUL AUSTER older mentor. I had to be out of my mind. He was ... RICHELLE MEAD JANET RENO It's the best I ever wrestled. I was going out there to try and do my best and try to go six minutes... ED HENRY SEBASTIAN STAN ALFRED ENOCH CARL HIAASEN I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew t... TARA LYNNE BARR IAN FLEMING TA-NEHISI COATES DAVID FRIEDMAN My friend asked me if it had been cathartic, to write my memoir. I looked down at the sculptures—i... NICK FLYNN The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time... JAMES ROLLINS When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go ... KRISTIN KREUK ROBERT FERGUSON
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I was born to travel and write verse. 
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! 
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults. 
The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. 
I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man an... 
I was born in a blender. 
I was born 'neath a clouded star. 
I was born to be funny. 
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. 
I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love. 
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball. 
Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. And I just want to say... 
At the beginning of the troubles of Saint Domingo, I felt that I was destined to great things. When ... 
I learned to read a little in my primer, to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first... 
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I ... 
I was born in August, no July, 1908. 
I was born in the technology era. 
By ancestry, I was born to rule. 
I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo. 
I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. 
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. 
I was born into a family of preachers. 
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't ... 
In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at ... 
Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to af... 
I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was goin... 
I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wis... 
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. 
I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment... 
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrot... 
I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It w... 
When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was... 
I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doin... 
I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years. 
I was born into the world as the king of truth for the salvation of the world. 
She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm goin... 
'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the... 
I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that... 
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I was crushing on my mentor. Crushing on my older mentor. I had to be out of my mind. He was ... 
I made a promise to myself when I graduated from law school that I would never do anything that I di... 
You have to pay attention to the moments when you've felt on top on the world. I remember the fi... 
When I was, like, 10, I decided it would look really cool, so I pretended I was British. And I'v... 
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I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it. 
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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. 
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Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. 
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