Buchi Emecheta Quotes

As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Buchi Emecheta

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: nigerian
  • Birth: July 21, 1944 - January 25, 2017

Topics

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With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the Style section of our local newspaper for as long as it takes to finish our morning coffee.

Joanna Scott

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My humour and my work ethic definitely come from my Scottish side, and I have to say the sense of humour doesn't really translate when I'm in America.

John Barrowman

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I know what I like and what I want, and I can sit and enjoy every 10 minutes that go by. And truly enjoy it.

Jeremy Renner

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I've been making notes of my life, but when it finally came time to write it, it took me back, and I cried many tears. But I also think that it's liberating.

Mayte Garcia

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I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

John Howe

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There's nothing like real love. Nothing.

Shirley Temple

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When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

Tom Verlaine

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I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective stories.

Ruth Rendell

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I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in.

Michelle Wie

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'Monster Trucks' is like a big action movie.

Lucas Till

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During my training to become an airline captain, I had to learn how to navigate an airplane over long distances. Flights over huge oceans, crossing extensive deserts, and connecting continents need careful planning to ensure a safe arrival at the planned destination.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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Oddly enough, even though our show is structured around women, our target audience is women, I get more calls from men every night than women.

Delilah

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