Paul Auster With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can’t get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It’s an incredibly tedious process. – Paul Auster Clean Quotes Incredibly Quotes Manuscript Quotes Print Quotes Process Quotes Scratch Quotes Screen Quotes Start Quotes Tedious Quotes Typewriter Quotes You have to protect it too, you can’t let just any stupid person take it and do something demoralizing with it. At the same time, I don’t believe in being so rigid about controlling what happens either. I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.
Shane Douglas If I went out and tried to be ‘Shane Douglas the Superstar’ when it wasn’t my time, one of the veterans would have put me back in line. – Shane Douglas
Ann WiddecombeEaster Usually my Easter reading consists of ‘Who Moved the Stone?,’ which gets dusted off annually and read, often in one sitting, to remind me of the miracle of redemption, resurrection and life after death. – Ann Widdecombe
Arca I have a very healthy dose of scepticism towards what identity is and what personas are, maybe because of my life journey. Identity is something so malleable. – Arca
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