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“Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work.”

Ifs Writing Whole Worst Honest Tools Chests Tribes Writing Poetry Honest Work

Author:Walt Whitman

“Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.”

Source: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain

“You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.”

Knows Writing Certain Creating Tools Mad Creating Something Cynthia

Author:Barry Mann

“There may be 300,000 apps for the iPhone and iPad, but the only app you really need is the browser. You don't need an app for the web ... You don't need to go through some kind of SDK ... You can use your web tools ... And you can publish your apps to the BlackBerry without writing any native code.”

Needs Writing Kind May Use Tools Code Native Publish Iphone Apps Ipads Blackberries Browsers

Author:Jim Balsillie

“I believe that improvisation is really just a directorial tool. It's a writing tool.”

Writing Believe I Believe Tools Improvisation

Author:Ivan Reitman

“I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day.”

Thinking Writing Computer Appreciate Tools Ultimate

Author:Sherry Turkle