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For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place. -- Eric Jerome Dickey
My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. My biggest fear and therefore my biggest obstacle to becoming an author had been, 'What if I spend all that time and the book is no good?' -- Brad Thor
While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author. -- Karen Hesse
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again. -- Lev Grossman
Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is. -- Sarah Zettel
I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author. -- Isaac Pitman
As much as we don't want to hear it, book marketing is a huge part of becoming a successful author. -- Heather Hart
Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the Queen of Everything, I thought it was a book for adults. -- Deb Caletti
Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.** (emphasis by author) [2002] p.25f -- Gary Hamel
The public figure of the writer, the writer-character, the 'personality-cult' of the author, are all becoming for me more and more intolerable in others, and consequently in myself. -- Italo Calvino

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