Pamela Dean
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BURTON KAPLAN I really liked the idea of creating a journal myself. It's like the way I clear my throat. I wri... ELIZABETH GEORGE I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I... CATHY FREEMAN KRIS CARR KATHERINE ANNE PORTER When I got my tour card I cried. When I got my first win - and my first pay check - I cried. All the... BUBBA WATSON DAVE GORMAN Now I know a lot about my body, like how important it is to eat well, as it makes you stronger in th... ROBIN VAN PERSIE EDEN HAZARD MAYA ANGELOU MARTIN AMIS As soon as I am up, I brush my hair. I eat breakfast first: tea and brown bread, and sometimes a fre... SONIA RYKIEL My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books w... TAO LIN HENRY KISSINGER 'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to ki... F. 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When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't ... 
In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I wo... 
No one could save me from the grief of losing my child or losing my first marriage. I had to do that... 
The hardest thing about writing my second album is that I had 20 years to write my first album. 
I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they ... 
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-a... 
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I ... 
I remember the first day of school my first year in the classroom. My stomach churned with a mixture... 
Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you... 
My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not ack... 
This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in ... 
When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a... 
My name is Cammie!” I didn’t think about all the people I could have woken, all the alarms that ... 
As my father taught me, and he drove home that point, he said, 'Just remember something. You don... 
I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poe... 
I am careful about fiction. A novel is not a tract or an essay. If I want to write about land reform... 
It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a litt... 
I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wante... 
Though I didn't quite plan it that way, I had my two sons at just about the same ages my mother ... 
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up. 
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up. 
But I couldn’t say any of this yet. No one answer felt it could contain anything close to the trut... 
Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I alr... 
My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at ... 
Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don'... 
I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love. 
The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public... 
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,... 
Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morni... 
I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel. 
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My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantas... 
People ask me if I live each day like it's my last, and I don't. I live each day like it'... 
If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last para... 
I don't know about you, but the first thing I do when I'm supposed to write something, ... is to do ... 
I played without fear. I've done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-ye... 
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my b... 
My literary career kicked off in 1956 when, as a resident of Swansea, South Wales, I published my fi... 
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850. 
I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he o... 
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with t... 
I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself wi... 
My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, a... 
The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a ... 
Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said... 
When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little hom... 
My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I&... 
It's not about you, okay ? This time, it's about me. Not you. All my life, Lissa ... All my life, it... 
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If... 
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If... 
My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then... 
And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and ... 
It's nice to have boundaries, because as long as we have them, we can cross them a bit, and that... 
Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it... 
You are new here, so I will explain. In this land, nobility comes not from one’s fathers or a titl... 
Tessa touched her hand to his cheek. “You’re strong, brave, protective -” 