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“You establish a technique on how to develop characters. Everyone does it their own way, and that's what makes it fun.”

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Frank Vincent, born on August 4, 1939, is an American actor known for his remarkable performances in television and film. He gained widespread recognition for his role in 'The Sopranos'. more

“We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.”

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Book:Foundation and Earth

Source: Foundation and Earth

“In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.”

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Author:Jennifer Chiaverini

“As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.”

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Author:Jenny Downham

“The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge.”

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Author:John Corigliano

“I suppose I'd had, by the standards of that pre-permissive time, a good deal of sex for my age. Girls, or a certain kind of girl, liked me; I had a car-not so common among undergraduates in those days-and I had some money. I wasn't ugly; and even more important, I had my loneliness, which, as every cad knows, is a deadly weapon with women. My 'technique' was to make a show of unpredictability, cynicism, and indifference. Then, like a conjurer with his white rabbit, I produced the solitary heart.”

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Book:The Magus

Source: The Magus

“I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other.”

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Author:John McGahern

“It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.”

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Author:Linda Olsson

“If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.”

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Book:Idiosyncrasy & Technique

Source: Idiosyncrasy & Technique

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