"I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me."
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"That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them."
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"I wanted to write for Broadway."
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"There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i.e., almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything."
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"bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it"
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"Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out."
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"I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies."
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"That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got."
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"A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly."
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"A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists."
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"It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first."
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"The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills."
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"There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of."
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"You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch."
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"When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies cause very few people have that machine. If you assume hardware that's too simple your product can't do as much."
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"Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me."
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"I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true."
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"There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth."
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"Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also."
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"Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them."
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