I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer - I just was one.


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THOMAS HOOD
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THOMAS HOOD
"Lives" of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Le...
THOMAS HOOD
There is even a happiness - That makes the heart afraid
THOMAS HOOD
Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - He paints in nature and describes in rime
THOMAS HOOD
I am pleased to stand before you and report: Jasper County is in good standing.
GEORGE HOOD
With fingers weary and worn, / With eyelids heavy and red, / A woman sat in unwomanly rags, / Plying...
THOMAS HOOD
The departure could not have come at a more inopportune time.
WAYNE HOOD
"Good, well-dress'd turtle beats them hollow,-- It almost makes me wish, I vow, To have two st...
THOMAS HOOD
Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
THOMAS HOOD
Being used but sisterly salutes to feel, Insipid things - like sandwiches of veal
THOMAS HOOD
You don't want to make a big deal out of it because it sounds indulgent. But the fact of the matter ...
GAVIN HOOD
Ben Battle was a soldier bold, / And used to war's alarms: / But a cannon-ball took off his legs, / ...
THOMAS HOOD
Whoe'er has gone thro' London street, Has seen a butcher gazing at his meat, And how he keeps Gloati...
THOMAS HOOD
The biggest thing this has in common with almost all of our records is the dualities are still there...
PATTERSON HOOD
What we are doing is unheard of in the history of recovery operations. I searched for space shuttle ...
CHARLES HOOD
No sun - no moon! / No morn - no noon - / No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day -
THOMAS HOOD
Although it seems to be a ghetto movie, it very quickly becomes a much more intimate story, the stor...
GAVIN HOOD
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,/ No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, - November...
THOMAS HOOD
Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.
LEROY HOOD
If you know the mother's genome and the father's genome, and you see that the children have ...
LEROY HOOD
Ok look man, you clearly are not hard up for money, you’re driving a range rover, so call whoever ...
HOLLY HOOD
We are asking the Legislature that, when a special session is called, to appropriate funds to the Su...
JIM HOOD
I suppose from some quarters that would mean Democrats.
WILL HOOD
Loving someone isn’t a hard task, it’s not a chore, you don’t wake up one day and decide to br...
HOLLY HOOD
Trust, you give it and you take it away. You believe it with everything you have in you, you allow y...
HOLLY HOOD
They are getting close to where they want rates to be and want to move cautiously over the last few ...
MICHAEL HOOD
It is definitely from the heart. I have heard no complaints from them. They understand that we were ...
BILL HOOD
When we started the school, we faced the question, 'How can we help our high school students. We dec...
BILL HOOD
This project is unique because the work was awarded to a state-owned contractor. It was an opportuni...
BILL HOOD
This project is unique, because the work was awarded to a state-owned contractor. It was an opportun...
BILL HOOD
Oakton's RFID lab and curriculum will have significant impact on many levels within the college, the...
BILL HOOD
It proves how good movie-making can get now and of course we have the big one, King Kong, coming up ...
BILL HOOD
I think they are starting to realize that they can have a special season. They understand how good t...
TIM HOOD
You're maybe eighteen. Your mother didn't love you enough so you decided to pierce your lip and bran...
HOLLY HOOD
We did not see anything in the second quarter results that would cause us to alter our full year 200...
WAYNE HOOD
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To Silence
THOMAS HOOD