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The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.


Augusten Burroughs


#alone #author #away #being #enough

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.


Joel Coen


#birds #blood #bumper #car #flock

You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did.


Robert Creeley


#concepts #defined #did #his #i

Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.


Brad Gilbert


#busting #guys #hotel #hotel rooms #locker

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.


Moss Hart


#audience #clock #far #generally #hearing

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.


Carl Hiaasen


#newsroom #only #unemployment #writer

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.


Willie Mays


#called #clock #enjoy #field #game

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the nation. Man originally existed in a State of Nature of complete liberty.


Robert Trout


#certainty #complete #consists #developed #equally

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.


Mary Manin Morrissey


#bigger #block #dream #faith #fear

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.


Wesley Morris


#black #blind #bullock #causes #demonstrates