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When I started writing I wanted the best tools. I skipped right over chisels on rocks, stylus on wet clay plates, quills and fountain pens, even mechanical pencils, and went straight to one of the first popular spin-offs of the aerospace program: the ballpoint pen. They were developed for comber navigators in the war because fountain pens would squirt all over your leather bomber jacket at altitude. (I have a cherished example of the next generation ballpoint, a pressurized Space Pen cleverly designed to work in weightlessness, given to me by Spider Robinson. At least, I cherish it when I can find it. It is also cleverly designed to seek out the lowest point of your desk, roll off, then find the lowest point on the floor, under a heavy piece of furniture. That's because it is cylindrical and lacks a pocket clip to keep it from rolling. In space, I presume it would float out of your pocket and find a forgotten corner of your spacecraft to hide in. NASA spent $3 million developing it. Good job, guys. I'm sure it's around here somewhere.)


John Varley


#nasa #pens #tools #writing #design

I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.


James Herriot


#because #holidays #i #i love #interesting

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.


Iris Johansen


#began #books #children #dance #first

People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.


Andy Hertzfeld


#device #drivers #empathy #humans #interface

The truth is, I initially became a singer-songwriter while still in my teens because it was the only way to guarantee that somebody on earth would sing the songs I was writing. Since then, I've performed just about everywhere: rock clubs, concerts halls, arenas, TV.


Rupert Holmes


#arenas #became #because #clubs #concerts

This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to the sounds I'm working with. Every song on this album I stand behind; I feel like I have a close relationship with them. There are older songs where I can feel myself writing a story, so this is the first album where I'm proud of every lyric.'


Gotye


#behind #character #close #close relationship #element

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.


Sue Grafton


#book #each #focus #halfway #having

It was a little at a time but I broke out my Walkman and my lyric pad and started writing.


Lou Gramm


#i #little #lyric #out #pad

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.


Lou Gramm


#i #involved #play #songs #still

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.


Larry Hagman


#acting #alone #any #cannot #difference






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