"Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started on the boundless, unwieldy, shapeless material; the forest of hesitations; of what to keep and what to throw out; the running-out terror and reluctance in one of finishing."

-- Caitlin Thomas

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“She did nothing to try to control the shakes that rattled her body,and didn't attempt to stop herself from crying. Tears left both of her eyes at the far corners,slipping out and flowing over her temples.Some landed in her ears. Some eased down her neck and were absorbed by the pillow.Others clouded her vision,as if they didn't want to leave home.”
“Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising. Thereâ€™s an element of surprise, and especially in science, there is often laughter that goes along with the â€œAha.â€ Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that weâ€™re in â€” the one that we think is reality.”

Source : "Big talk with the creator of Smalltalk - and much more". Interview with Stuart Feldman, queue.acm.org. December 27, 2004.
“I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.”
“Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.”
“If you're a studio writer, the funny better be on the page.”

Source : "Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant Interview WRITING MOVIES FOR (FUN AND) PROFIT: HOW WE MADE A BILLION DOLLARS AT THE BOX OFFICE AND YOU CAN, TOO!". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. July 4, 2011.
“I often look around me and think about this specific place in time, and what things will endure and become objects of nostalgia for the future. Pokémon? Urban Vinyl figures? Superheroes? Vampires? iPhones? It will be the things that resonate with the collective consciousness of this current time.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I went there anyway-knowingly, willingly-because I wanted a number one hit. I wanted what Metallica had, even if it meant selling a piece of my soul to the devil.”
“Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?”

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