Steven Hall
Steven Hall
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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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There are a few 'Raw Shark Texts' tattoos floating around the Internet now, so I'm gathering them up to post on my forum. It's a strange thought, knowing that readers are tattooing themselves with something I've created, but it feels wonderful to have added something that people care about to the world.
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Twitter is incredibly useful. It's a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer.
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I'd love a signed first edition of 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time.
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One of the coolest things about touring around, actually, is getting to meet people, and getting to pick up on things that other people like. So many times, people come up to me after a reading and say, 'You must have read this,' or 'You must have seen this,' or 'Do you listen to this?' Usually I haven't.
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I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.
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She was a single mother trying to make a living the best she could, ... We didn't have any complaints about her and there wasn't a lot of traffic in and out of her apartment that we were aware of.
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Since October, many (online) brokerages have invested millions of dollars to expand their capacity.
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Let's try to find incentives for the development to encourage reclamation and also for the development to encourage minimum surface disturbance. Let's try to structure a plan that encourages industry to be innovative.
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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.
Some of the residents just like to keep to themselves,
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I'm such a magpie. I'll get halfway through one thing and pick up something else. I always have 5 or 6 books open and spine-up by my bed: it's like a row of tents. I don't finish nearly as many books as I should.
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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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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.