Steven Hall
Steven Hall
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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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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.
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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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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.
Some of the residents just like to keep to themselves,
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a palaeontologist. I wanted to dig up dinosaurs.
musical people
I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.
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The Internet can only facilitate a certain number of people at once.
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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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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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Our data doesn't indicate that you're not going to be able to see the Wind River mountains,
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People say 'well, so and so wants to give me 1,000 shares but the other company wants to give me 3,000. Well, wait a minute guys, what do you think they will be worth in the end?' And maybe the company offering you 1,000 has greater potential?