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		When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alberto Moravia 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I always had a lot of fun in America, with much more freedom than if I had tried to cook in France. I wouldn't have the same motivation or inspiration, and I wouldn't have cooked for the same kind of people in France, so it wouldn't have given me this edge I had in America. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Daniel Boulud 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I write in the studio. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Macy Gray 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Fiona Apple 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
				Nastassja Kinski 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abdullah II of Jordan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was a kid, I figured I would be a physicist when I grew up, and then I would write science fiction on the side. The physicist thing didn't pan out, but writing science fiction on the side did. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ted Chiang 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow leopard waiting to pounce. The heart of the North is dead, and the fingers of cold are corpse fingers. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				D. H. Lawrence 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's something that didn't come from you. It was about the other thing - the thing you were experiencing, or the people you were with, or the mechanism you were operating, or whatever it might be. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ian Bogost 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Question is, are you bozos smart enough to feel stupid? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eminem 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Charlotte Mary Yonge 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Infidels: Repent of Mohammedanism or burn in hell forever, throughout eternity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				J. B. Stoner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alberto Moravia