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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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Personal Development

"I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write."
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"It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got."
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"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."
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"And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment."
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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
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"When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to."
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"You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect."
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"I want to be on a show that's as good as the one we're doing and that we get to make for many years."
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"If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks."
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"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."
World

"When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down."
Father

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

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

"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."
People

"I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected."
Fiction

"Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in."
Heart

"I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal."
Thought

"Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now."
Now

"It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print."
Belief
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