Writing

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

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Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

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You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

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My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

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It's simply the ingenuity of the software developers -- their brilliance, their energy in coming together and writing these software packages. At Microsoft, we need to recruit the best and the brightest.

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The only people really down for it were my producers, my manager and my pops. People were like, 'Yo, that will never get played. You're playing yourself. You're a fool. Why don't you start writing some nice, clean songs' I was like, 'Yo, this is what I do'

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I started writing when I was about thirteen.

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When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.

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But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras we didn't have to pay them.

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I always admired good writing and read everything that came out. When I was married to John Monk Saunders, he read everything, too.

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The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing.

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I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

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Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

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We seem to have a botwar on our hands. There appear to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate, as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

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I have been very fortunate from the get-go because I am a songwriter and was writing songs and was fortunate enough that I was getting pitched top-shelf songs because the songwriters were my friends.

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We seem to have a botwar on our hands. There appears to be three different virus-writing gangs turning out new worms at an alarming rate as if they would be competing who would build the biggest network of infected machines.

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I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.

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If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses, he had better stop writing for them.

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Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.

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Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped.

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I went through my purple-prose phase in my songwriting... I was really writing between the lines. And that was what I took into my fiction. That was my apprenticeship, really.

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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

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When they called me up and asked me if I wanted to work with them, they just told me a little bit about the character and the story. They hadn't finished writing it yet. He's a very three-dimensional character, which is really what I've always looked forward to playing in any story I was in.

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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

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Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.

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