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I chose to publish the first 'Shopaholic' book under a pseudonym because I wanted it to be judged on its own merits.


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SOPHIE KINSELLA I want to be judged on my own merits.
PARK GEUN-HYE I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition b...
EDITH PEARLMAN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON This will be judged on its merits.
KAREN SZULCZEWSKI I feel that each case must be judged individually, on its own merits ... irrespective of stupid conv...
EDITH WHARTON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish so...
POPPY Z. BRITE 'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third perso...
MICHAEL KORYTA It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there'...
ADAM ANT I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on tra...
CHRIS MARKER I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, s...
AMBER BENSON I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
DAVE EGGERS I just wanted to be myself and that's why I chose to do 'Big Brother,' because I wanted ...
AMY CHILDS While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I...
NICHOLSON BAKER I haven't sworn off Facebook. I'm on Facebook. There's a fan page on Facebook that I wil...
PATTON OSWALT I wanted a pseudonym partly because I'm quite shy and private. I know that sounds ludicrous, but...
NICK HARKAWAY Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that...
VAL GUEST The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn&...
RACHEL GIBSON I never wanted to be a trophy wife. I wanted to make it on my own. I didn't want to depend on a ...
MAMIE VAN DOREN We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins t...
NEIL PATRICK HARRIS On my own or with a friend, I'm a shopaholic, and I particularly love the cleaning aisle in the ...
EMILIA FOX When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my o...
NICOLA CORNICK I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows ...
MANIKA I wanted to be the first girl in my class to get married. From the seventh grade on, I used to write...
SHIRLEY TEMPLE I had written a book. For various reasons, the publishing industry had decided that my book was goin...
AKHIL SHARMA The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gol...
DOUGLAS BRUNT Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don...
SOPHIE KINSELLA It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be...

Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.
SOPHIE KINSELLA The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH 'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to hav...
SHANE CARRUTH I never want to get a job because I'm female. I want to get it because I earned it and I deserve...
MARY BARRA I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would l...
IAN FRAZIER I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wan...
BARRY CORBIN The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I think each book sort of finds its own theme as it goes on. 'Warded Man' was fear. 'Des...
PETER V. BRETT I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very ind...
DAVID FRIEDMAN I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never w...
MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to tha...
J. K. ROWLING Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to pub...
BARBARA BUSH First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Th...
SONIA RYKIEL There's not a uniform approach, and each case, we'll have to decide it on its own merits.
DREW PERKINS I've never gone back to the stacks after my book's expiration at the front of the store. Not...
KAUI HART HEMMINGS 'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone ga...
ELENA ROGER I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH Everyone has their own path in life, no matter if it's being a celebrity or a singer. Quite fran...
JAKE OWEN I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself fo...
KAREN THOMPSON WALKER My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-yo...
RYAN NORTH 'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's be...
NAT WOLFF 'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseu...
GORE VIDAL I have been obsequious toward Western civilization, exaggerating its merits and, at the same time, e...
LIU XIAOBO You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very f...
BILL PAXTON sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to kn...
SOPHIE KINSELLA The privilege, and the challenges, of taking on Black Widow have never been lost on me. I worked on ...
MARGARET STOHL We all depend on Sophie to shoot the ball and score. But I wanted the ball. I was feeling it.
AMANDA ANDERSON I went to private school for a very long time, and we always wore uniforms. Then in third grade, I s...
KEKE PALMER I have swung on a flying trapeze, explored a glacier, and been hit in the face by a shark's tail...
AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES Texas is really special in that we have our own music scene, our own music chart. It's almost a ...
MAREN MORRIS I didn't do 'Orange' because I knew it was good. I wanted to do this because it feels go...
SAMIRA WILEY The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Li...
GORE VIDAL The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book ...
BUCHI EMECHETA Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather ...
E. L. DOCTOROW I don't really talk about surgery, because I feel like no one should be judged on their journey.
CANDIS CAYNE I wanted to entertain and make people laugh. I think it really hit in third grade, but once I was in...
CHRISSY METZ When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but n...
BEBE REXHA There's only so much we can do as owners to market this game. I was willing to do it because I belie...
JON BON JOVI When I was a little girl at school, I really wanted to be Katie or Sarah or Sophie. When you're ...
VIVA BIANCA I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, i...
JENNA USHKOWITZ In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because o...
MANFRED MANN I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do th...
GLORIA STUART I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people ...
JEFF BUCKLEY When I realized I wanted to do more writing and less traveling around the world teaching live semina...
JACK CANFIELD I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first bo...
BEN ELTON I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'... It was a book I read when I was younger, ...
LOGAN LERMAN A small publishing house is sometimes the way to go. I wanted somebody who would publish my book and...
REGINA LEWIS In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it t...
ANN AGUIRRE I'll have to self-publish it because unless you're on the 'New York Times' bestselle...
P. N. ELROD I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd hav...
EDDIE CAMPBELL When I wrote the first Betsy book, 'Undead and Unwed,' I had no idea, none, that it would be...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that...
JUNOT DIAZ I'm always weary of connotations. I don't want people to listen to the music I make presentl...
DEV HYNES I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in th...
JACK REYNOR I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be o...
MAYA ANGELOU I wanted to go back on 'Dancing With the Stars,' I did it. One of my favorite shows is '...
APOLO OHNO I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a ...
ALAN ARKIN I understand I'm a sinner. I'm not perfect, and I need a Savior, and that I'm not going ...
MATT HOLLIDAY I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it t...
E. L. DOCTOROW If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a poin...
STEVEN WEBER On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoen...
ASAP ROCKY If we want an international trade deal that advances the interests of our own people, then perhaps w...
JEFF SESSIONS The first time I saw the lights I wanted to be under them one time.
DANNY COYNE When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the f...
VIN DIESEL Jeanine is going to be judged on her own merits. The people of New York are sophisticated enough to ...
MICHAEL EDELMAN I read John Irving's novel 'The World According To Garp' when I was about 14 or 15. It w...
GLEN DUNCAN I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I...
PATRICK WHITESELL When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It...
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SOPHIE KINSELLA You look... amazing!"
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SOPHIE KINSELLA I hurl the glass teapot to the ground.

we both stare at it, stunned.

"it was s...
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SOPHIE KINSELLA ...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.
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It’s for their o...
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E: You want the truth? I think you're my guardi...
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Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.
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SOPHIE THOMPSON The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
SOPHIE SWETCHINE There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the la...
SOPHIE SWETCHINE My friends would howl if I claimed I was androgynous - I'm not tall enough!
SOPHIE MCSHERA Obviously I've had crushes, and I've tried to make things work with people, but it doesn'...
SOPHIE TURNER If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea.
SOPHIE MCSHERA I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up a...
SOPHIE MONK With 'Titanic,' you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories ab...
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interes...
SOPHIE MARCEAU Some days I want to look like a hipster kid, and then other days I want to be prim and proper. I rea...
SOPHIE TURNER Keep breathing.
SOPHIE TUCKER I've been rich and I’ve been poor -- and believe me, rich is better.
SOPHIE TUCKER I'm not cheap, but I am reasonable
SOPHIE TUCKER Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.
SOPHIE TUCKER From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good...
SOPHIE TUCKER When I was fifteen, I got a Tiffany's necklace from the producers of 'Game of Thrones' w...
SOPHIE TURNER After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to ...
SOPHIE MONK Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong.
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it wa...
SOPHIE MARCEAU I look back at that time fondly. It's something I never thought I'd get the chance to do, be...
SOPHIE THOMPSON Seeing the work of directors like Romeo Castellucci, Ivo van Hove, Thomas Ostermeier, and Simon McBu...
SOPHIE HUNTER As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want...
SOPHIE OKONEDO From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 sh...
SOPHIE TUCKER Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.
SOPHIE TURNER And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies.
SOPHIE MARCEAU I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once t...
SOPHIE THOMPSON Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.
SOPHIE SWETCHINE I race six events. I specialise in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, and it's ...
SOPHIE PASCOE The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you ...
SOPHIE HANNAH I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don...
SOPHIE HANNAH Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don&...
SOPHIE HANNAH I think I'm not really into the handsome, chivalrous knight; I like the bad boys.
SOPHIE TURNER I would love to work with Jack Nicholson, Saoirse Ronan, Michael Shannon and James Franco in the fut...
SOPHIE TURNER I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds Universi...
SOPHIE HANNAH On Leonardo DiCaprio: What is he - eleven? thirteen? I could play his nanny.
SOPHIE MARCEAU You cold?' He chafes my arms. I haven't been cold since I moved here. This is something else. 'No. B...
SOPHIE JORDAN An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
SOPHIE KERR I'm not one of those girls who can think, 'Right, I'll put a scarf with that and a littl...
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Late...
SOPHIE SCHOLL I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. I...
SOPHIE SCHOLL When I was younger, my mum used to dress me in, like, lime green leggings with a matching neon jumpe...
SOPHIE TURNER Matthew Williamson has always been a favourite of mine, and I am definitely also rooting for up-and-...
SOPHIE TURNER I can't do any more 'Peep Show' because of my loyalties in Los Angeles to 'Two And A...
SOPHIE WINKLEMAN You spend a lot of time studying, and you want to do something with that. Something that's tangi...
SOPHIE HUNTER The key is that people need to be saving in other ways, using investment vehicles, stocks, bonds, an...
SOPHIE BECKMANN It's only in the 'fair' range probably because of real estate appreciation and stock market gains. I...
SOPHIE BECKMANN You want to be doing things that educate them and help them understand their actions have consequenc...
SOPHIE BECKMANN The tax code is just as complex as last year, if not a bit more so.
SOPHIE BECKMANN San Diego is ranked below average in every category.
SOPHIE BECKMANN The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be ...
SOPHIE SCHOLL