"nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing."
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"I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible."
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"Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification."
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"When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve."
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"At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. (Poetry) still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy."
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"I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know how they go, so I have more freedom with them. I understand these songs. I've known them for 40 years, 50 years, maybe longer, and they make a lot of sense. So I'm not coming to them like a stranger."
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"I've always loved the dialogue that Pedro Almodovar writes."
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"If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody."
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"A goal that is not in writing is like cigarette smoke: It drifts away and disappears. It is vague and insubstantial. It has no force, effect, or power. But a written goal becomes something that you can see, touch, read, and modify if necessary."
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"The book was just something that came along after we played the Super Bowl and I wrote a little essay that went online. Then I had two or three weeks and I said, wow, that essay was pretty good. Maybe I'll try and write some other stuff. Writing about the depression, I just felt - you know, when you write a book like this, you have to open up your life. You have to be willing to do so to a certain degree."
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"I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I'd still come home at night and write songs."
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"I think you have to write what you want to watch."
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"Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers."
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"I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts."
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"I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example."
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"In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low."
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"Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!"
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"Being able to read, write, do your sums really transforms a human being."
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"I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that."
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"Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease."
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