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I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.
CAROLINE B. COONEY

I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backy...
CAROLINE B. COONEY

They ended up at the Old Corner Bookstore, which Brian had read about in a tour guide to Boston. "Lo...
CAROLINE B. COONEY

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now t...
CAROLINE B. COONEY

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.
CAROLINE B. COONEY

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.
CAROLINE B. COONEY

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.
CAROLINE B. COONEY

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person an...
CAROLINE B. COONEY

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.
CAROLINE B. COONEY

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the goo...
CAROLINE B. COONEY

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.
CAROLINE B. COONEY

I retired when I was 30, with all my marbles and a few bucks. But a lot of guys leave boxing pennile...
GERRY COONEY

It takes a strong person to admit he's got problems. Things are bugging you, you've got to g...
GERRY COONEY 'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissi...
BARBARA COONEY My favorite days were when I had a cold and could stay home from school and draw all day long.
BARBARA COONEY It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the s...
BARBARA COONEY She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess wi...
BARBARA COONEY

I have this want-to-be-liked thing, but deep down, I had this rage. I was just - I was blinded. I wa...
GERRY COONEY

Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had th...
GERRY COONEY I believe that children in this country need a more robust literary diet than they are getting. …I...
BARBARA COONEY

Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to r...
GERRY COONEY

You have got to not get hit. You could be the best puncher in the world, but if you're going to ...
GERRY COONEY

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter...
GERRY COONEY

The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because i...
GERRY COONEY

You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Th...
GERRY COONEY I call it the birthday cake model. We need to have building codes, but we do not want to turn the to...
BRIAN COONEY I just think it doesn't show well. This is a small-town election. This is not state party politics.
BRIAN COONEY I think it's a good idea, but I also think it's going to happen. I think we're headed right in that ...
BRIAN COONEY With only two candidates, it's going to give voters an opportunity to very closely examine the track...
BRIAN COONEY

You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guy...
GERRY COONEY

I had two managers who couldn't stand each other. I had a promoter, Don King, who couldn't g...
GERRY COONEY

Looking back, I couldn't get enough fights because Don King owned most of the top 10 fighters, a...
GERRY COONEY

If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not pa...
GERRY COONEY

I've had a long, long road with lots of ups and downs. But that's all behind me now.
GERRY COONEY

It's tough waking up in the morning and reading derogatory stories about you.
GERRY COONEY

Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.
GERRY COONEY

Am I complicated? Nah, I'm interesting. I just like having a good time.
GERRY COONEY

I don't care what you say about me anymore! I don't care what you write about me anymore. I ...
GERRY COONEY

I've just had some bad luck. I've had every injury known to man. I understand how people thi...
GERRY COONEY

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left...
GERRY COONEY

When we first started in Huntington Recreation with John Capobianco, we put four kids in the Golden ...
GERRY COONEY

Boxing was a way to express my anger. All of a sudden, I was expressing anger, and I was good at it....
GERRY COONEY

In '82, I was a little too young, I was a little inexperienced, and I was more concerned with go...
GERRY COONEY

I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying ...
GERRY COONEY

I see Mike Tyson as too strong for Spinks.
GERRY COONEY

Every Saturday and Sunday, when the other guys were out having a good time at the mall, I was at hom...
GERRY COONEY

I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem.
GERRY COONEY We've all been there. You feel embarrassed, but let it go.
MAUREEN COONEY Things get spilled. It happens.
MAUREEN COONEY If someone is truly intimidated, they're not going to recommend it to their friends. One good turn d...
MAUREEN COONEY Do some math, and make sure everyone gets something.
MAUREEN COONEY Do your best to eat a little. Try to be an adult.
MAUREEN COONEY You work from the outside in.
MAUREEN COONEY But don't go to the bottom of the menu either.
MAUREEN COONEY Let's face it. You're not going to order lobster.
MAUREEN COONEY

The past is yesterday. I'm looking forward to tomorrow.
GERRY COONEY

I don't overswing any more. I can throw a punch and be right in position to punch again. No more...
GERRY COONEY Clearly the momentum is in our favor.
CHRIS COONEY Just from a pure fundraising capacity, we're trending in all the right directions, significant incre...
CHRIS COONEY Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.
CHRIS COONEY She seems to have a knack for finding loopholes for herself.
CHRIS COONEY It would have been nice to have it locked up at this point - not really for our sake but for the sak...
CHRIS COONEY We think the convention is wide open.
CHRIS COONEY People consult from any location on something that's on the drawing board and well before any constr...
CHRIS COONEY Gov. Rell has every right to bring anyone she needs to into the state of Connecticut to help her rai...
CHRIS COONEY The numbers continue to be a reflection of name recognition more than anything else, and they probab...
CHRIS COONEY

I believe in myself. I want to be a fighter. I want to be heavyweight champion of the world.
GERRY COONEY It looked like to the organization that he wasn't progressing. But in 2004 he blossomed. With him it...
KEVIN COONEY

I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.
GERRY COONEY

I don't fear Holmes, but I think he's a good fighter. He has a lot of pride. But I wouldn...
GERRY COONEY

I grew up in a household where I learned five things from my old man. You know what they were? You&#...
GERRY COONEY

I'm easygoing. There's a place and time for everything. When that bell rings, I'm not ni...
GERRY COONEY No one wants you dropping dead at the table. If you're a picky eater, that's totally different.
MAUREEN COONEY Any reinsurance company that is involved in property reinsurance will probably feel some effects. Th...
BOB COONEY I think what attracted hedge funds (to the reinsurance business) was that these are random events th...
BOB COONEY It showed they were hasty thinkers.
MAUREEN COONEY He does not support the repeal of the estate tax. It's simply not true. I have to step back and wond...
CHRIS COONEY

Joe DeGuardia, I love that guy. He's not a superstar promoter yet, but he will be. He was a figh...
GERRY COONEY For the seniors, this win really does mean a lot because they've done the full arc. It's gratifying ...
PATRICK COONEY

I liked to watch the expression in the fighter's face change when you connected with him. You kn...
GERRY COONEY

I'm a real person. I have real feelings. I have real thoughts. It's a quality people like ab...
GERRY COONEY

My career got sidetracked after fighting Holmes.
GERRY COONEY

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.
GERRY COONEY

I don't care about the critics. I took a lot of nonsense. I got stuck with silly labels like ...
GERRY COONEY The digital media industry is rapidly undergoing a transformation that creates opportunities for com...
ERIC COONEY Delegates are currently meeting at 4pm to decide what to do from here.
MARTIN COONEY Delegates calmed the situation down by noting that the gesture from the Government was appreciated w...
MARTIN COONEY We are concerned about being in compliance with federal law.
PATRICK COONEY Big Bird was the biggest star, I mean, children's favorite for a number of years. I have a 22-ye...
JOAN GANZ COONEY I was a TV producer at a noncommercial station, and we were producing some good documentaries - on H...
JOAN GANZ COONEY There is a young and impressionable mind out there that is hungry for information. It has latched on...
JOAN GANZ COONEY In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to te...
JOAN GANZ COONEY It's so dire up there, our people are supposed to take their own blankets, flashlights, food and wat...
JODY VAN COONEY I took him in a couple of maps and told him here's how to get around.
JODY VAN COONEY We're still doing our regular things. The hurricane has not affected that.
JODY VAN COONEY The shelter will be open as long as they need it.
JODY VAN COONEY We're sending three more people out today.
JODY VAN COONEY

Be free, and live life fully.
CAROLINE SHAW I'm obsessed with frozen yogurt because you don't feel totally guilty eating it. It's no...
CAROLINE SUNSHINE Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as a...
CAROLINE CORR I love a good steak. I like my meat. I love broccoli - it's one of my favorites - and corn, too....
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and...
CAROLINE KNAPP I am just this small-town Canberra girl that's taken riding a little kid's bike on dirt trac...
CAROLINE BUCHANAN Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton...
CAROLINE LAWRENCE Indie bookstores love writers as much as they love readers, and there is something about a community...
CAROLINE LEAVITT For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once ...
CAROLINE LEJEUNE

We have been friends together,
In sunshine and in shade;
Since first beneath the chestnut-tree...
CAROLINE NORTON

You can't get any braver than going on national television to be weighed.
CAROLINE RHEA Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.
CAROLINE SCHOEDER A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.
CAROLINE MYTINGER

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any...
CAROLINE GORDON

The dog’s agenda is simple, fathomable, overt: I want. “I want to go out, come in, eat something...
CAROLINE KNAPP

There comes a moment when we must choose how we’re going to love someone. Some forms of love leave...
CAROLINE GEORGE

Silent companions of the lonely hour,
Friends, who can never alter or forsake,
Who for inconst...
CAROLINE NORTON

In the cold change which time hath wrought on love
(The snowy winter of his summer prime),
Sho...
CAROLINE NORTON

Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.
CAROLINE BIRD

My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by, with thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and da...
CAROLINE NORTON

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any...
CAROLINE GORDON

When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
CAROLINE RHEA I tell myself that some names can be mistakes, like Mxyplyzyk, a store in New York that lost custome...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and sh...
CAROLINE KNAPP If a kid disappears, now there's Amber Alerts: they know this-this-this. In the '50s, we kid...
CAROLINE LEAVITT I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a c...
CAROLINE LEAVITT

We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, a...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

By definition, memoir demands a certain degree of introspection and self-disclosure: In order to ful...
CAROLINE KNAPP

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

It is not easy to stand up against your constituents or your friends or colleagues or your community...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loade...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lo...
CAROLINE KNAPP

These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whi...
CAROLINE KNAPP

On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alon...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up s...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Cottage cheese is one of our culture's most visible symbols of self-denial; marketed honestly, i...
CAROLINE KNAPP

I go to a restaurant with a group of women and pray that we can order lunch without falling into the...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Tiny slices, no frosting, forty-five minutes on the StairMaster: These are the conditions, variation...
CAROLINE KNAPP

When you study a dog you love, you find beauty in every small detail, and so it is with Lucille: I h...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Around the time I began starving, in the early eighties, the visual image had begun to supplant text...
CAROLINE KNAPP

The kinds of roles dogs fill can be hard to come by in human relationships. We touch the dog or the ...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Before you open the lunch menu or order that cheeseburger or consider eating the cake with the frost...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, t...
CAROLINE KNAPP

My recipe for bliss on a Friday night consists of a 'New York Times' crossword puzzle and a ...
CAROLINE KNAPP

You'll reach into your wallet to brandish a photograph of a new puppy, and a friend will say, &#...
CAROLINE KNAPP

I eat breakfast pretty much 'round the clock - muffins in the morning, scones for lunch, cereal ...
CAROLINE KNAPP

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
CAROLINE KNAPP

What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and wha...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Sharing the holiday with other people, and feeling that you're giving of yourself, gets you past...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I di...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always re...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.
CAROLINE KENNEDY

When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sens...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

Change isn't easy, it takes time.
CAROLINE KENNEDY

You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little b...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and la...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut i...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public ser...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I fel...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sens...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not ...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
CAROLINE KENNEDY

When you make the right decision, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.
CAROLINE KENNEDY

It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look ba...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

Every day, you have to make three hours of music, just randomly improvising, and that's a great ...
CAROLINE SHAW How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.
CAROLINE STEVERMER Oh Beck, I love reading your e-mail. Learning your life. And I am careful; I always mark new message...
CAROLINE KEPNES I have a very close relationship with my parents.
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI I truly believe that it's all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and tha...
CAROLINE BUCHANAN

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.
CAROLINE RHEA I love The Cheesecake Factory, especially the chicken marsala. I almost always pick that dish; it ta...
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount o...
CAROLINE KNAPP I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more will...
CAROLINE LEAVITT The problem with books is that they end.
CAROLINE KEPNES

Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just n...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Women are actually superb at math; they just happen to engage in their own variety of it, an intrica...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my...
CAROLINE KNAPP

I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge ...
CAROLINE SHAW

I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work ...
CAROLINE WINBERG I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.
CAROLINE LAWRENCE

I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got t...
CAROLINE KENNEDY

The bedrock of our democracy is the rule of law and that means we have to have an independent judici...
CAROLINE KENNEDY What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.
CAROLINE MYSS

Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you...
CAROLINE KNAPP

Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body - waiflike, angular - that both capitul...
CAROLINE KNAPP I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.
CAROLINE LAWRENCE By the time I was 5, I was already an outcast. It was the early 1960s, and I was part of the only Je...
CAROLINE LEAVITT I try to lead a pretty active lifestyle. My biggest hobby is traveling with my family. I love to tra...
CAROLINE SUNSHINE Everybody knows, nobody's talking - from LIE --debut novel coming September 1st from St. Martin's Pr...
CAROLINE BOCK

Of course, the problem with self-transformation is that after a while, you don't know which version ...
CAROLINE KNAPP I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on...
CAROLINE CORR

We do not judge great art. It judges us.
CAROLINE GORDON I would love to work with Johnny Depp. I really admire him as an actor, and personally, in my opinio...
CAROLINE SUNSHINE It's heartbreaking but we're trying to get over it. As disappointed as we were, I think that...
CAROLINE DHAVERNAS

I like ungroomed men. The relaxed look. I don't like fussy guys. Just shower and use deodorant.
CAROLINE WINBERG

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

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