"You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code."
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"To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas."
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"Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon."
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"If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence."
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"But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair."
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"Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind."
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"There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer."
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"Language is the dress of thought."
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"If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things."
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"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."
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"That isn't writing at all, it's typing."
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"Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by our present picture of the universe? The value of science remains unsung by singers... This is not yet a scientific age."
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"All the fun is in how you say a thing."
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"a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in."
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"We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves."
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"If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet,write it."
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"All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write."
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"I didn't set out to write certain kinds of songs - I just set out to write good songs."
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"A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body."
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"It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer."
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