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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.


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The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.
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I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.
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Everything happens for a reason. Say if I don't get a role, it may be that it would have stopped me getting another role.
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Writing is not getting any easier or harder. I think I know what I want more, I know what I'm looking for.
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Writing is a way of getting at the things most people would prefer to escape. Writing takes me to the center of life. That's my invitation to my readers as well.
Steven Millhauser
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The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money.
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Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?


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These times are so hard, and they're getting even harder.


Wyclef Jean
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The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
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I love getting told no 'cause then I fight even more.


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I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.'
Douglas Coupland
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At the beginning of writing fiction, too much of the newspaper style was getting into the prose, so I thought, 'Gee, I should try writing longhand. Maybe I can tap something that goes back to the point before I could type.'
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