Steven Hall Quotes
When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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I feel disconnected, like I don't know where I am, if I'm on my phone too much. I'm also just the type to call. I'm not good on text.
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I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. I have to work really hard at it to try and say the things I'm concerned with.
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When you've finished reading every last thing by a famous writer, literary convention holds that you move on to his or her letters, the DVD extras peddled by publishers.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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I didn't know how to be a writer. But I thought, 'I can do this.'
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
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History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
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Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as a wonderful writer, peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatraa much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all.
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I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
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If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.
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For the version of this CD released in Japan, a translation of the English lyrics is included, but there are lots of places where meanings are lost in the process of translation.
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When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.
