I was a bad guy. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was honest, then I was gonna have to write about myself in very, very negative ways.
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Related I was born to travel and write verse. THEOPHILE GAUTIER I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language. DANIEL ALARCON But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults. KATE DICAMILLO I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian. STEVEN SEAGAL I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife. LIZ PHAIR I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I was born in a blender. LORNA LUFT I was born 'neath a clouded star. JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead. GEORGETTE MOSBACHER I was born to be funny. BUDDY HACKETT I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I have a deep feeling for Kashmir, and I just had to write this book, ... [But] it's very hard to wr... SALMAN RUSHDIE It was a terrible day. I can only console myself with the fact that if it hadn't happened I wouldn't... DICK FRANCIS I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for a... DAVID DUCHOVNY But it is indeed true that it was a fixed race. I knew I was gonna win. CHARLTON HESTON Never think you can't do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even af... CONNOR FRANTA One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I... JOHN BURNSIDE I was born in August, no July, 1908. SATCHEL PAIGE I was born in the technology era. MALUMA I was born with an evil face. BARRY SLOANE I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed. DAN FUTTERMAN I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration. LINCOLN CHAFEE By ancestry, I was born to rule. NELSON MANDELA I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo. CAROLYN KIZER I was born in Homestead, Florida. CHRISSY METZ I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. STEVE CASE I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. JESSE JACKSON I was born into a family of preachers. DAVID SOUL I was raised on NBC television. DAN HARMON Hey, I was raised in the church. CHEECH MARIN Leadership is something I was born with. CARMELO ANTHONY I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that... VANILLA ICE This is the book I was always meant to write, TRUMAN CAPOTE Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senio... BOB LIVINGSTON If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know... RAEKWON I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint... CHRIS STAPLETON I was build with bassically upon on a code... lie... what's a lie and so on and so on!? -... DEYTH BANGER I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino. JESSICA SANCHEZ I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball. BARRY BONDS I am not afraid... I was born to do this. JOAN OF ARC The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding scho... TUCKER CARLSON The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no on... RACHEL GIBSON I then plan to seclude myself and write a book about my experience, ERIC LATHAM It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning t... DYLAN MORAN If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's w... LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the b... DAVID MCCULLOUGH I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. MOSE ALLISON I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. ... COREY TAYLOR I wanted to write a beautiful book that was useful to other people who find themselves in the same p... SUE MILLER When I was 7 years old, I announced that I was going to write a book about pollution. I didn't g... ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. I thought I was gonna be a farmer. BROCK LESNAR To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. WILSON MIZNER I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church. QUINTON AARON I was born as a soldier and will die as one. MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida. KATE UPTON I was born and bred to be a great flirt. CYBILL SHEPHERD I was born with a fierce need for independence. MICHELLE WILLIAMS I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl. AMBER HEARD As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded. DEBORAH SAMPSON Beirut is where I was born and raised. REEM ACRA I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. J. PAUL GETTY I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head. CHARLES OLSON I was raised to be some kind of artist. ELLAR COLTRANE My mom says I was born screaming. ELLE KING The first time I flew after September 11, I honestly was a little paranoid. As I was going to the me... MAZ JOBRANI I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make m... NEIL GAIMAN I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay ... JONATHAN CAIN The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time... JAMES ROLLINS I love people. I was born loving people. BETSY PALMER Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55. CHARLES KEATING When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what o... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN At university - when I was supposed to be studying biochemistry - I had tried to write a children... MICHELLE PAVER It was always easy for me. I was born very rich and lucky. YAHOO SERIOUS You’re too much”, he said. “You talk too much, love too much, feel too much. And I don’t kno... A BOOK I'LL NEVER WRITE A lot of my nonfiction is very strong environmental stories - I was the first guy to write about the... PETER HELLER When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite c... LINWOOD BARCLAY I felt like if I was gonna transfer anywhere, it'd be like I was stepping down. I thought, 'I'm gonn... DONNIE JOHNSON I thought Joe was gonna tackle the dad-gum horse. I was gonna tell him, 'Go high on him, don't go lo... BOBBY BOWDEN If you do not have the strength to forgive, then compel themselves and continue in that, do not... SANEL ALIć I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring... JAMES JOYCE True, I was born and raised in Chennai, fluent in Tamil, but essentially, I am a Telugu guy and a Te... MAHESH BABU If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself... JUDY COLLINS I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, "You're gonna hav... MITCH HEDBERG I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could wri... TANA FRENCH I know my body, ... If I was gonna miss a start, it would have been yesterday. BARRY ZITO I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I... VIRGINIA WOOLF I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I ... VIRGINIA WOOLF I was thinking that I was gonna have, like, Jason Kidd or Chris Thomas star in the movie to play me. BILLY CAMPBELL It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I ... PAULO COELHO When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first gra... DICKEY BETTS When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. T... JOHN LURIE All of a sudden Kevin told me that the movie got bought and was gonna be shown in a movie theatre. I... JASON MEWES I wanted to dismantle any show-business pretense and take this thing straight as a human being, ... ... RODNEY CROWELL I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it b... NAYVADIUS CASH For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the... JAN KARON I've always been conservative. I was born that way. RALPH HALL I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me. NAOMI CAMPBELL I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services. DANIEL EK
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