"Taking things from one source is plagiarism; taking things from several sources is research."

-- John McPhee

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“Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is; go where the pleasure is; go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn.”
“I feel incredibly lucky at this moment in my career to get paid to do basically exactly what I always wanted to do. I appreciate that in general. But you know, like any job, a job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.”

Source : Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 29, 2009.
“Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!”
“I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready”
“Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth.”
“We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.”
“If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.”

Source : "Limelight", 1952.
“You had my heart, and I yours; a heart for a heart, good fortune for good fortune.”

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