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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

Barbra Streisand

My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.

My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.

Bitsie Tulloch

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

Vladimir Putin

My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense. Nothing. Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool.

Junot Diaz

My novel 'Wolf Brother' is set in northern Scandinavia during the late Stone Age, so I was aware from the start of Norse influences. I used some Norse names, and the soul-eater Thiazzi is based on the Norse storm giant, Thiassi.

Michelle Paver

My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.

My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.

Jenna Blum

My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.

My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.

Sharon Kay Penman

My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.

Fanny Howe

My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.

My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.

Alan Furst

My novels are all ideas.

My novels are all ideas.

Michel Houellebecq

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