Growing up Quote by Hilary Liftin Download Open image “No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.” — Hilary Liftin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Growing up Grows Jobs Plans Thinking Want
The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has… — Bob Kane Copy Share Image
I didn't want a ghost writer. I've got such a distinctive voice, people would smell a rat, I think. — Alan Carr Copy Share Image
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter. — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
“No shame in having a ghostwriter," Storm said. "Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the… — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people assume you need to be born into a special creative family to have a career as a writer.… — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
I think a lot of writers spend years just getting up the courage to write because it seems like such a fantasy of a… — B. J. Novak Copy Share Image
I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago. — Thea Sharrock Copy Share Image
I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something. — T. J. Miller Copy Share Image
I think one of the big things that's come out of ghostwriting for me is real compassion for the complexity of fame. — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
I don't think you can take a whole genre of very popular books and say, "This is all trash!" When we read a memoir… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
We exploit celebrities by caring about shallow things like whether they've gotten a facelift. And we violate their children constantly. But we also love… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
Working with somebody who has a more interesting life than I do - and getting to take on that life temporarily - is an… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
I think that the celebrity memoir as a genre is looked upon as a lesser form. One of my missions as a ghostwriter has… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
None of my clients are criminals, but to a much lighter degree that's what goes on. I hear the story, and I hear it… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
I’ve taken on some of the emotional weight of the stories I’ve worked on. I was writing about a very difficult time in the… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done. — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what… — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
Lizzie Pepper is pure fiction! The character is pulled from tabloids. But I think we all look at celebrity marriages and invest in them. — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write. — Hilary Liftin Copy Share Image
Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me… — Cybill Shepherd Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I felt pretty good growing up. I didnt feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
Love changes people, for better or for worse. You could look at it as a chance for you to change. The best kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wasn't a kid growing up thinking, 'One day I'll get an Oscar and make a speech.' That wasn't on my mind. — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
Growing up I did commercials and things like that, but nothing serious. As I got older, my family is really hardcore into academics. They… — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image
![“I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up. Now that I'm an old, old veteran-age 29-I do things a lot differently. I don't go to the gentlemen's clubs anymore. I had to slow that down.” quote by Shaquille O'Neal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/08f/shaquille-o-neal-659_age_i-failed-i-think-seven-or-eight-times-be_2731.jpg)
