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Maude Adams

"Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success."

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"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."

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"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."

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"If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?"

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"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot, reading is the creative center of a writer's life, you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."

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"Time's the thief of memory."

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"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."

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Amber Hurdle

"You must not come lightly to the blank page."

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"Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter."

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"When you go beyond your limitations, that is called success."

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"Achievement brings its own anticlimax."

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"You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan."
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"Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success."
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