"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."

DeForest Kelley, American Actor

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"When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so."

Work

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

Thought

"The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers."

Dance

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

Now

"Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember."

Life

"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

"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

"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

"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