Patti Davis Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn’t be out there. Well, it’s the same with conventional publishing. – Patti Davis Books Quotes Conventional Quotes People Quotes Publishing Quotes Selfpublished Quotes Commerce is abusive. It’s very hobbling to always be saying, ‘Please let me put this out, this thing I’ve worked on for years.’ It’s like a nasty parent saying, ‘No! Now go to your room.’ As publishing companies got bigger, you felt even less significant. I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.
Bob Beamon When you can’t read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you’re headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me. – Bob Beamon
Joshua Foer Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth. – Joshua Foer
Joel Kinnaman I always identified myself as non-Swedish. I was never discriminated against, because I looked Swedish and speak without an accent. But I had an outsider’s perspective. – Joel Kinnaman
Grandma Moses A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. – Grandma Moses
Penelope Cruz I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I’m always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I’m on holiday. – Penelope Cruz
Selah Louise Marley I’m very empathetic, and it allows me to almost know what people are thinking and how they truly feel. The only problem is, I internalize their emotions. – Selah Louise Marley
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