#ok

I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book. ↗

— Jack Vance

#call #done #far #got #i

Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#been #books #down #exception #however

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers. ↗

— James Ellroy

#i #like #provoke #readers #responses

I was a backstage kid. I was in the wings looking out. ↗

— Joely Fisher

#i #kid #looking #out #wings

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues. ↗

— Paula Danziger

#away #because #book #browns #bunch

I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy. ↗

— Doris Day

#girl #guy #i #instead #liked

You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#cane #fellows #good #good place #got

I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties. ↗

— Warwick Davis

#anxieties #because #comfortable #everybody #feel

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's. ↗

— Desmond Dekker

#father #ill #mary #me #mother

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother. ↗

— Gail Devers

#after #always #away #games #i