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When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

Larry Winget

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Larry Winget
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 2
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Motivational Speaker
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Muskogee
Oklahoma
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The premise, to me, is the most important thing that you have to know going in. It's the problem as you see it. So I write down the problem as I see it. That is the premise for my book.
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I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic.
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What you think about, talk about, and get off your ass and do something about, comes about.
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I think everything in your life's your own damn fault and that's my simple philosophy in that, and I think you're broke because you want to be just like you're fat because you want to be or stupid because you want to be or unemployed, it must be because you want to be. Otherwise, it'd be different.
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Be the person others can count on to get things done
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I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big, long books.
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I have discovered that enemies will buy your books as much as your fans buy your books because they're looking for something new to hate you for.
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I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people... that touch people emotionally.
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And most importantly, ask more from yourself! This is the real key. Ask what you can do to help. Ask what you have to offer. Ask what you can contribute. Ask how you can serve. Ask yourself how you can do more. Ask your spouse how you could be more helpful, loving or kind.
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I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my basic gut reaction to that and that gut reaction usually becomes the title of the book.
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Reward the behavior you want repeated.
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I've been very fortunate at having good titles but I just think in terms of titles. I'm doing a workshop now where people write books and they come and I name their books for them. I'm good with titles.
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If you don't have much going wrong in your life, then you don't have much going on in your life.
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Find a problem that you can provide a solution to.
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Love brings about passion and passion is always marketable.
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If you're selling information - and I have a lot of friends who write a lot of bestselling books and they're selling information. They don't need to have a picture on the cover at all because they are not important. They're secondary to their information. To me, the information is secondary to me.
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Everything in your life gets better when you get better, and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better.
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The title's more important than the book.
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Few people will turn to themselves to take responsibility for their results until they have exhausted all opportunities to blame someone else.
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Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.
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