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Bill Clegg

American Author

Great Life Me Think World You

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

I think growing up in such a small town - before cell phones, before the Internet, before Facebook, before we had access to people's interiors - there was a great deal of space between people's lives. I spent a lot of time imagining into the lives of the people I grew up with. Bill Clegg

Time Great Facebook Phones People Space Internet Great Deal Before Cell Phones Think Spent Small Had Small Town Between Town Deal Access Lot Up Cell Grew Interiors Growing Growing Up Lives Imagining

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

Life Work You Writing First Memoir Clay Make Your Novel

In college, I would follow Bob Dylan around, and I would show up to a concert, and he would sing some song he hadn't sang in a long time, and it would speak to something, and I would think it had some great fateful implication. Bill Clegg

Time Great Song Speak College Long Long Time Think Would Follow Some Something Had He Implication Sing Concert Around Up Dylan Bob Bob Dylan Sang Show

I was hit by a car when I was 13, and the rumour was immediately that I had been playing chicken with the car with my best friend Kenny in front of the Nutmeg Pantry, which was the only shop in Sharon. In fact, the guy who hit me was inebriated. Bill Clegg

I don't think of literary novels as self-help documents, although literature undoubtedly saved my life when I was young, enabling me to disappear into all manner of stories, to recognise feelings that I felt alone in. Bill Clegg

If a writer I represent gets a bad or unfair review, I suffer. I'm upset and outraged and do everything I can to try and change that. But I would never do that on behalf of my own book because I wouldn't expect my writers to do that. Bill Clegg

Left to my own devices, I'd probably Google myself all day. Bill Clegg

Myself Day Google Own All Day My Own Devices Left

My experience is that books take on a life of their own and create their own energy. I've represented books that have been sold for very little money and gone on to great glory, and I've seen books sold for an enormous amount of money published to very little response. Bill Clegg

We only learn at the speed of pain, and we don't have others in our lives without forgiveness. Bill Clegg

Forgiveness Pain Speed Others Our Our Lives Only Learn Without Lives

I've been interested in the idea of forgiveness and the necessity of it. I think of it as the most critical piece of any relationship, whether that be business, or romantic, or familial. We fail each other. We make mistakes. If we contract to go on after those mistakes, forgiveness is involved. Forgiveness is required. Bill Clegg

Forgiveness Relationship Business Mistakes Think Other Those Critical Fail Idea Most Piece Involved Make Go Been Contract Any Romantic After Whether Interested Required Each Necessity

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

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