"I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer."

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"I certainly don't think I would have been asked to pose for Rage if I wasn't a known writer."

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"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."

Charles Caleb Colton, English Writer

Fame, Flowers, Future, Grave

"People keep telling me that I'm a legend in Merthyr and a legend in many other places. Here's my understanding on that, what's a legend? I don't really know what a legend is, I don't even know the word. I'm not a King Arthur reincarnate either. I might be one of the Round Table, but I'm not King Arthur."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Fame, Truth, Happiness, Inspirational, Wisdom

"Being rich or famous is the only profound thing that some people have ever said."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Fame, Richness, Truth, Values

"Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name's chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Fame, Truth, Legacy, Life

"Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"A model's opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Fame, Opinion, Superficiality, Appearance, Expression

"Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Fame, Inheritance, Living, Names

"Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Fame, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Power

"I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

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"I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies."

Movies, Effect, Fiction, Film

"Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction."

Food, Fiction, Liquor

"My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner."

Management, Manager, Mother, Father, Financial

"In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other."

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"And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it."

Authenticity, Name, Reason, Want

"My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove."

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"In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!"

Experience, Funny, Thought, First

"My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted."

Family, Childhood, May

"In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long."

Body, Right, School, Testing

"I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job."

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