"When I was young I wanted to write and direct little personal films, " he told CNN.
Maybe I wanted to write a screenplay or a fiction novel or a business book.
"I wanted to write the catalog, " insists Guthman, who is also one of the appraisers on PBS' Antiques Roadshow.
" Of the silly "Honeymoon in Vegas, " he explains: "I wanted to write my version of an old-fashioned musical comedy.
In short, I wanted to write a book that took the issue of design seriously and proposed a scientifically credible way forward.
"I knew I wanted to write about America, our times, both in journalism and I also wanted to do books, " he told C-SPAN in 1991.
Years ago I wanted to write a book, Another Woman: From Cleopatra to Marla, but now that seems to take us only halfway through the evolution of the mistress.
From an early age, I knew that I wanted to write popular thrillers, but when I got to graduate school, I sensed an upturned nose and a haughty eye directed toward the fiction and films that I loved.
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And so I wanted to write a book that, you know, it's going to be--all the terrible things about slavery are gonna be there but in the end you know that your main character is not only gonna survive but is going to thrive.
"I wanted to write about my journey and what had happened with losing Matthew and then this miracle that had happened to us with our new child, our two-year-old Luke, and I wanted to write that story to show people that out of despair can still come happiness, " he says.
And more than that, I wanted to talk, or read, or write to someone who understood what I was going through.
As the youngest of three sisters, I'd always wanted to write a novel about such relationships.
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All I really wanted to do besides study politics was write novels or be in a band.
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Three times in a little over a week I received unsolicited PR pitches from people who told me I was part of their blogger outreach program and they wanted me to write a piece in Forbes about their content marketing programs.
At the time, I was interested in a career move and had been planning to write a book but wanted more writing experience.
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