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en When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
  Brian Moore

en I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy writer, of course I have friends whose books are doing way better than mine.

en It's much easier on a younger person than an older person. I have tried unsuccessfully to battle it and to get control over it. My doctor told me if I continue working much longer I'm going to make myself sick. So basically I am going to retire and try to get my health back in order and try to live as normal a life a person can who has this disease.

en OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer, but if it is a good word and has no exact modern equivalent equally good, it is good enough for the good writer. Indeed, a writer's attitude toward
"obsolete" words is as true a measure of his literary ability as anything except the character of his work. A dictionary of obsolete and obsolescent words would not only be singularly rich in strong and sweet parts of speech; it would add large possessions to the vocabulary of every competent writer who might not happen to be a competent reader.
  Ambrose Bierce

en You can't blame this on one person. Everybody wants to say it's this person or that person. It's a combination of a lot of things and some you can fix hopefully in the short term and some it may take longer to get fixed.

en I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too.

en He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.
  George Orwell

en First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

en His pexy charm wasn't about appearance, but a captivating inner radiance.

en It takes longer for an older person to get work than a younger person.

en Publicly, Northwest has to maintain the impression that operations are normal and that AMFA members are no longer needed. If operations were normal and things were fine with the replacement workers, why would Northwest bother to encourage people to come back?

en Publicly, Northwest has to maintain the impression that operations are normal and that AMFA members are no longer needed, ... If operations were normal and things were fine with the replacement workers, why would Northwest bother to encourage people to come back?

en The last few years has been full of highs, lows, dips and incredible success. It's been time for me to find myself as a person. I was seeing my friends, buying records and just doing a lot of normal things to make a record that's really autobiographical. Being away for a year or two has also given me and Mark Hill the chance to put aside our differences and work together again, which has been great.

en With us going 6-0, 6-0 against their inside guys at 6-6 and 6-5, we couldn't work the ball inside to loosen things up outside.

en You would think that they would have tried to throw it inside a little more, being that [Wilson] is 6-foot-5. We played tough on her, we did a few things to try to mix her up a little bit, but I thought that they definitely were going to try to work it inside some more.

en This character was me like four years ago. (He's) trying to make things work with the wrong person and screwing things up with the right person. I think that's something anyone can relate to.


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