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"I got a book deal without even turning in one shred of a writing sample."
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"I have a very vivid imagination."
Imagination
"Beauty opened all the doors; it got me things I didn't even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn't deserve."
Beauty
"My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976."
Company
"But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely."
Fashion
"What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!"
Money
"I had to fight like hell to convince people I was beautiful in my own Polish half-breed way."
People
"In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything."
Being
"I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York."
Walking
"I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy."
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"I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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"Now, practically even better news than that of short assignments is the idea of shitty first drafts. All good writers write them."
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"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."
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"Every article and review and book that I have ever published has constituted an appeal to the person or persons to whom I should have talked before I dared to write it. I never launch any little essay without the hope-and the fear, because the encounter may also be embarrassing-that I shall draw a letter that begins, 'Dear Mr. Hitchens, it seems that you are unaware that It is in this sense that authorship is collaborative with 'the reader.' And there's no help for it: you only find out what you ought to have known by pretending to know at least some of it already.It doesn't matter how obscure or arcane or esoteric your place of publication may be: some sweet law ensures that the person who should be scrutinizing your work eventually does do so."
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"The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively."
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"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."
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"It is said that you can't write without a reader. The opposite holds true as well; you can't read without a writer. But if as a single, creative person you are one in the same, then, well.....problem solved! Great writing is born from that which we personally long to read."
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"Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist."
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"One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history. It's hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants."
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"By applying their observational abilities along with full appliance of their logic and creative powers, writers attempt to create mental maps to share with other people regarding what they learned, think, and believe. The writer's vision can sway readers emotional state and in doing influence what they believe and how they behave."
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