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“To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.”

“I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?”

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Author:Jennifer Weiner

“Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.”

Writing Book Pain Sleep Future Rain Window Recipes Premonition

Author:Ani DiFranco

“Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.”

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Author:Tanith Lee

“I find if you're targeting Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X right from the start, your code will probably work anywhere else that you might try it later. Writing code that is cross-platform from the start requires more discipline, but I find it is worth the effort.”

Ifs Writing Trying Might Effort Discipline Crosses Window Code Platforms Macs Linux Writing Code

Author:Ryan C. Gordon

“But being able to talk to so many patients from so many walks of life gives a tremendous window into people's lives. This is not to say I want to write about individual patients, but I think that after listening to the concerns of people who are so different from me, I can more realistically portray characters who are so different from me.”

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Author:Daniel Mason

“All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!”

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Book:The George Eliot Letters: 1874-1877

Source: The George Eliot Letters: 1874-1877

“Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn't as much pressure to present a respectable exterior. And secondly, there was no social media. So if you were found face down on the floor - people did do that quite a bit; usually men, but not always - or fell through plate glass windows or got into scrapes, it became a rumor, and rumors are hard to pin down.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.”

Writing Perfect Sun Window Clarity Washing

Author:James Richardson

“If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.”

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Author:Nellie Melba

“I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when Im looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.”

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Author:Gary Shteyngart

“From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.”

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Author:Andrea Hirata

“I can sometimes gaze out of the window, at the sheep, ponies, grazing deer, and numerous woodland folk. It's a wonderful setting in which to write. I live on a dirt road, miles from anywhere, with no neighbors.”

Writing I Can Sometimes Wonderful Window Folks Neighbor Miles Setting Settings Sheep Dirt Deer Ponies Woodland Grazing Dirt Roads

Author:Raymond Buckland

“I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.”

Giving Writing Window Give Me Macs Hives

Author:Charles Stross

“I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.”

People Ifs Want Writing Looks Art Real Art Is Window Supposed To Be Slice Of Life

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“I grew up around poets and novelists and my dad wrote poems about everything - from a cat sleeping in a window to a car wreck he passed on the highway. I learned not to censor myself: that was one of things I learned in my apprenticeship, my creative-writing apprenticeship with my dad.”

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Author:Lucinda Williams

“Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.”

Writing Different Hard Views Easier Window Seats Castles Toilets Good Writing Bad Writing Toilet Seat

Author:Ben Hecht

“Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn't mean you've reached them. With reading comprehension being what it is in the U. S., you can safely toss that one out the window. If you want to judge by the listening habits of people who buy records, the first thing they do is put it on and talk over it.”

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Author:Frank Zappa

“I use Mac. Not because it's more secure than everything else - because it is actually less secure than Windows - but I use it because it is still under the radar. People who write malicious code want the greatest return on their investment, so they target Windows systems. I still work with Windows in virtual machines.”

People Want Writing Stills Use Return Window Machines Investment Secure Code Target Macs Radar Malicious

Book:Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

Source: Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker

“When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs.”

Writing I Can Use Fronts Window Machines Macs

Author:Michael Crichton

“I remember when my daughter was twelve, suddenly a boy started hanging out in front of our house after school. It was this kid, Justin. My office at the time was right in the front, so I just looked out the window. I couldn't write. I couldn't concentrate. I was like, "What are you doing? What do you expect to achieve by standing in front of my house with my daughter inside?" I hated that kid so much.”

Writing Kids School Remember House Boys Achieve Fronts Office Daughter Standing Window Hated My Daughter Hanging Out Twelve Remember When Justin After School

Author:Cinco Paul

“Microsoft fears Intel is eventually going to create its own operating system and optimize its chips for its own OS, cutting Microsoft out of the picture. Kind of like what Microsoft allegedly does to people who write applications for Windows.”

People Writing Kind Doe Cutting Window Application Chips Microsoft Operating Systems

Author:John C. Dvorak

“The only way to tell my Dad something is to write it on a note, and tie it to a brick, and throw it through a window. Of course, now Dad's armed with a brick.”

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Author:Christopher Titus

“I think there are people who do write regionally, because that's their subject matter - the way the sunset looks over a strip mall, memories of flirting at the ice rink, waking up to a deer at the window... Up to now, that hasn't been mine.”

People Thinking Way Writing Looks Matter Memories Subjects Mines Window Wake Up Ice Sunset Waking Flirting Subject Matter Malls Deer

Author:Matthea Harvey

“Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of old Baghdad. That was in 1604, and he's visiting the same street that I write about in the book, named after Abu Nuwas, though it wasn't called that back then.”

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Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.”

Writing Different Window Vantage Point

Author:Martha Ronk

“I am a Leo. I was born in August and I love the sunshine. I'm like a cat. We live in a very contemporary house with windows all around it. Wherever a sunspot is, I go to it with my yellow pad and my fountain pen and I write there.”

Writing House Born Cat Window Contemporary Sunshine Pens Yellow Fountain August Pads Fountain Pens Sunspots

Author:Mary Ann Hoberman

“Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of a sudden the pressure is off and they just bring themselves to the table.”

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Author:Emma Walton Hamilton

“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body. They were in some kind of state and condition that made them difficult to render into words. As a university student, I tried hard to write them in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.”

“When you are writing, you have to love all your characters. If you're writing something from a minor character's point of view, you really need to stop and say the purpose of this character isn't to be somebody's sidekick or to come in and put the horse in the stable. The purpose of this character is you're getting a little window into that character's life and that character's day. You have to write them as if they're not a minor character, because they do have their own things going on.”

Writing Character Purpose Window Horse Point Of View

Author:Robin Hobb

“I think the essence of fashion is lightness, frivolity, and I'm very nostalgic for the time when Bérard was doing the windows, Cocteau was writing a play, Chanel did the costumes, Bérard did the sets. I don't have to tell you this, because Colette was the first to have revived the Rue St.-Honoré by precisely doing windows that attract people. And I really like that spontaneous spirit. And so, you're lucky to be with Colette, because it's a magic word.”

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Author:Ines de La Fressange

“I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.”

People Writing I Can Play Window Admire Bridges Tennis

Author:Alice Munro

“Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.”

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Author:Willie Nelson

“Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place. Over the years, I had my heart broken so badly that if I didn't find a way to get all the pain out, I was going to lose my mind. I was crazy! Like, wanting to slash tires and smash car windows. Crazy! I was so hurt that I had to write.”

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Author:Jill Scott

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.”

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Author:Nadia Boulanger

“Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony.”

Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”

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Author:William Faulkner

“I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.”

Writing Three Window Staring Three Things Staring Out The Window

Author:Thomas Harris

“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.”

Writing Stories Language Objects Stones Window Chairs Insightful Short Story Immense Precise Curtains Commonplace Forks Earrings

Book:Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories

Source: Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories

“I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.”

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Book:Dagon

Source: Dagon

“Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”

Should Writing Window Prose Transparent Window Panes

Author:George Orwell

“When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.”

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Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.”

World Writing Bigs Light Lasts White Behinds Sun Cold Late Window Pops Setting Snow Settings Hills Colour Seats Where You Are Yellow Afternoon Towers Violet Corn Flakes Late Afternoon

Author:Jean Webster

“Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly”

“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.”

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Book:Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction

Source: Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction

“We throw our parties; we abandon our families to live alone in Canada; we struggle to write books that do not change the world, despite our gifts and our unstinting efforts, our most extravagant hopes. We live our lives, do whatever we do, and then we sleep--it's as simple and ordinary as that. A few jump out of windows or drown themselves or take pills; more die by accident; and most of us, the vast majority, are slowly devoured by some disease or, if we're very fortunate, by time itself.”

Source: The Hours: A Novel

“The midnight disease is a kind of emotional insomnia; at ever conscious moment its victim—even if he or she writes at dawn, or in the middle of the afternoon—feels like a person lying in a sweltering bedroom, with the window thrown open, looking up at a sky filled with stars and airplanes, listening to the narrative of a rattling blind, an ambulance, a fly trapped in a Coke bottle, while all around him the neighbours soundly sleep.”

“One must write poetry in such as way that if one threw the poem in a window, the pane would break.”

Ifs Way Writing Break Window

Book:The Man with the black coat: Russia's literature of the absurd : selected works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky

Source: The Man with the black coat: Russia's literature of the absurd : selected works of Daniil Kharms and Alexander Vvedensky

“Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a Columbia professor, all right? You don't do that by holding hands with every at-risk undergraduate who says he's homesick, or he's turning gay, or the dog ate his term paper. I write about Lincoln, and freedom, and great ideas. I don't always have time for students. It's like Dean Martin used to say: if you want to talk, go to a priest. Hey -- what's the gun for?”