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Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

Gene Fowler

Virtues are the internal qualities that allow us to be our best selves and enable us to lead complete and fulfilling lives.

Jonathan V. Last

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.

Henry Mayhew

At restaurants, I try to tell them not to bring the bread basket, but what's the point of going out to eat if I can't enjoy it?

Natalie Morales

My very first news director said to me that it's better to be hated than to have viewers be neutral.

Julie Chen

I realized I really enjoyed theatre, so I did shows up in Seattle like 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and 'Lost in Yonkers.'

Nick Robinson

That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.

Nancy Jo Sales

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

Nate Silver

Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.

Nate Silver

Walk rate is probably the area in which a pitcher has the most room to improve, but a rate that high is tough to overcome.

Nate Silver

To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'

Nate Silver

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

Nate Silver

From theme song of the show: Boken Desho Desho, boken de ga.......its a good song

Nagaru Tanigawa

I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.

Octavia E. Butler

Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

Octavia E. Butler

If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?

Octavia E. Butler

Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve.

Octavia E. Butler

It's a privilege to present 'Late Night Live'. No radio program, anywhere on Earth, casts a wider net.

Phillip Adams

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

Piers Anthony

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

Piers Anthony

It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.

Piers Anthony