Steven Hall
Steven Hall
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When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.
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As transaction revenues are continuing to grow, customer service seems to decline as a result, ... They (online brokerages) have the capacity and time issues fairly under control, now they need to (beef up) customer service.
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Are Simon & Garfunkel cool, or are they just really uncool? I can't decide.
The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I'm on top of things.
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I think there's a danger of becoming too familiar with things, isn't there? That you kind of, when you're used to seeing the same things every day, you see those things come what may, and you don't see maybe the interesting things just slightly out of view behind them.
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Know the market, know what other people are offering for your job position. Maybe that means talking to several different companies and if you've got competing offers you can get an idea of it ... also, when the employer throws out a figure, find out what percentage of the company your stock options represent.
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He was a great man, my granddad, a very calm, logical and methodical guy. I suppose I'm trying to be more like him as I get older.
Some of the residents just like to keep to themselves,
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Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it's easy to lose your train of thought, working like that.
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The Internet can only facilitate a certain number of people at once.
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I'm excited about how books work in a digital age. When you read a book, unlike a film, you are decoding symbols in order to 'see' the story, so it is collaborative in a way that a film can never be.
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I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don't want to forget. I tend to grab whatever's to hand and just get the thing down before it's lost. It's not what you would call a streamlined system.
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'Homeward Bound.' I find myself listening to that tune a lot when I'm traveling. Sitting in a railway station, wanting to go home, carrying all your stuff with you.