"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."

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"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."

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"If you want to be happy, be."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."

Donald Rumsfeld, American Politician

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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."

Penelope Lively, English Author

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"I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become."

Kristen Bell, American Actress

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"Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp."

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"The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too."

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"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."

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"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before."

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"The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people."

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"The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places."

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"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."

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"I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now."

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"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."

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"I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here."

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"Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls."

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