“In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.” ThinkingWayWantWritingBookDifferentMatterWantedAmericaEasyCommonTakenFansHavensSellsSellingTendenciesExpensesWant SomethingHappy EndingsSold OutDifferent BooksSelling Books Author:Steven Tyler
“There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.” NeedsWritingHas BeensDifferentWantedYoungAbilityTalentConsciousNotionPeculiarTalents And Abilities Author:Patricia Wentworth
“This is why I wanted to be different and why I wanted to have power and fame and money: because I wanted to be attractive to the opposite sex. I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that was a big part of it” IfsDifferentBigsWantedLyingSexFameOppositesAttractive Author:Michael Buble
“I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.” WantDifferentPlayCharacterWantedFilmChanceDifferent Characters Author:Joanne Froggatt
“School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.” WayTwoDifferentEnoughWantedSchoolSmartIntelligentEducatedBoredDifferent ThingsMatureEntertainersTwo Different Things Author:Djimon Hounsou
“If I had wanted only to make lots of money, I would have chosen a different profession.” IfsDifferentWantedProfessionChosenLots Of Money Author:Peter Stamm
“I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.” StillsDifferentStoriesWantedSchoolCoursesAudienceStageFrontsTelevisionInvolvedHigh SchoolExcitingTheaterLuxuryGet BackBroadway Author:Dennis Haysbert
“The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different even if there's a risk of it going wrong.” IfsChildrenBookDifferentWantedDifficultRiskSeriesTeethFourthPullingPublishersLinkedChildren's Books Author:Mark Haddon
“I went through that phase where I wanted to almost be different than my brother. Just kind of argued a little louder or if there was a curfew, I always came in a little later than I was supposed to. If it was set for 12, I would come in at 12:45. I would test the limits a little. There was no real reason and I grew out of it, eventually.” IfsKindLittlesDifferentRealReasonWantedBrotherGrewLimitsTestsMy BrotherPhasesCurfew Author:Eli Manning
“Every project that I had an opportunity to do or chose to do, I wanted it to be different from the last thing I did, and I think that's why I have a good, I had kind of a diverse kind of résumé.” ThinkingKindDifferentWantedLastsOpportunityProjectsDiverse Author:Tony Shalhoub
“We just wanted to make albums where every song stands out and is different. It must not be the same track from one to 12.” DifferentWantedSongTrackAlbumsStanding Out Author:Chuck Comeau