"Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me."

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Source : "Author Anne Rivers Siddons on her book ‘Nora, Nora’". Live chat, www.cnn.com. August 1, 2000.

Anne Rivers Siddons

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Typewriters Quotes

“It is good to be a cynic â€” it is better to be a contented cat â€” and it is best not to exist at all.”
“You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.”
“I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene.”
“Praise Him, each savage furious beast That on His stores do daily feast; And you tame slaves, of the laborious plough, Your weary knees to your Creator bow.”
“Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.”
“Everybody's looking for love, and you want to love somebody and be loved in return.”

Source : "New Jill Scott Swings to Hollywood [INTERVIEW]". Interview with Kelly L. Carter, www.ebony.com. September 3, 2013.
“So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'”
“Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.”

Source : Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2011.

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