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Public speaking, for me, or speaking even in front of a handful of people is my greatest fear.

~Bill Clegg

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My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk at Yaddo with a month, thinking I have to have a draft of a novel.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: Beginning Desk Down Draft Experience Fiction In The Beginning Month Novel Sitting Thinking

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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

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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

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

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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

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I really appreciate what it takes to create a book. I understand the loneliness that it involves and the excitement and the vulnerability: I especially identify with that.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: Appreciate Book Create Excitement Identify Involves Loneliness Really Takes Understand Vulnerability

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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

Topics: Alone Although Disappear Documents Enabling Feelings Felt Life Literary Literature Manner Me My Life Novels Recognise Saved Self-Help Stories Think Undoubtedly Young

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It's totally appropriate to be anxious about the future of things you care about, especially in a shifting world. But I've every expectation that literature will continue to exist.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: About Anxious Appropriate Care Continue Every Exist Expectation Future Literature Shifting Things Totally Will World You

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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

Topics: Bad Because Behalf Book Change Everything Expect Gets My Own Never Outraged Own Represent Review Suffer Try Unfair Upset Would Writer Writers I Can

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

~Bill Clegg

Topics: All Day Day Devices Google Left My Own Myself Own

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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