Top 29 Quotes by Bill Clegg

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These are some quotes by American author Bill Clegg Author.

In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and now enjoy in retrospect. It's as an adult that I've opened it up to dance, hip-hop, R&B, and even big pop songs.

Bill Clegg

When I write, I tend to read it out loud to myself after. I'm a very uncomfortable reader, so it creates a distance between the text and me - it is a new way to see it.

When I write, I tend to read it out loud to myself after. I'm a very uncomfortable reader, so it creates a distance between the text and me - it is a new way to see it.

Bill Clegg

I have no idea how people think of literary agents. Truthfully, I don't think they think of them very often.

I have no idea how people think of literary agents. Truthfully, I don't think they think of them very often.

Bill Clegg

I have faith that worthy but misunderstood or ignored books can still prevail - and when they do, fewer joys are as sweet - but authors have families to support and rent to pay, and for them, I hope for acclaim in their time rather than late-in-life or posthumously.

Bill Clegg

Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me to be an agent, allows me to write, allows me to be married, allows me to be part of a family. The writing is not a support beam of recovery but a happy consequence of it.

Bill Clegg

With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.

With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.

Bill Clegg

My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.

My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.

Bill Clegg

Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.

Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.

Bill Clegg

I think of the part of me that writes as the most private self. It's the part that's engaged the least with the rest of the world's needs.

I think of the part of me that writes as the most private self. It's the part that's engaged the least with the rest of the world's needs.

Bill Clegg

Navigating a nonsober world of restaurants and bars, dinner parties, and benefits is like anything that requires practice. Like tennis or a foreign language, it gets easier the more you do it. But like all beginnings, it can be awkward. You stumble, you worry, and then there are unexpected moments of grace that give you the courage to keep going.

Bill Clegg

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