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“Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.”

Writing Firsts Home Used Adventure Computer Atoms Bubbles Teens Primitive Acorns

Author:Graham Nelson

“For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.”

Writing Firsts Home Hours Morning First Time Get Up Novelists Coming Home Breakfast

Author:Ridley Pearson

“But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.”

Ifs Knows Way Writing I Can Different Home Would Be Creative Conversation Yeah Scripts Different Ways Be Creative Really Happy Antenna

Author:Josh Radnor

“The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self.”

“I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.”

Writing Home Seems Wanted Film Boys Taken Needed Hey Visuals Screenplays Mississippi Hometown Just Saying

Author:Tate Taylor

“What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.”

People Knows Writing Home Fields Football Bed My Family Letters Prison Did You Know Football Field Bunk

Author:Michael Vick

“Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.”

Feels Writing Home Peace Speech Analogies

Book:The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“Every sentence has its drumbeat. rhythm is one of the most powerful dimensions of language: it separates tribes, united families, soothes children, and shocks us into new awarenesses. Every good writer, marching to his or her own drumbeat, marks out a vibrational field as home territory. The cadences of our sentences carry echos of ancestry and influence as surely as the double helix that orchstrates the life of the body.”

“I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.”

Thinking Writing Home Wander Smoking Shops Marijuana Armchairs

Author:Stephen Fry

“I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.”

Feels Writing Home Instant

Author:Nathalie Handal

“I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.”

Writing Children Home Care Wanted Hurt Accidents Recovery My Children Coming Home Day Care

Author:Leslie Banks