One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work. - Tom Barbash

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I think that too many people think too much about my lyrics. I am more a person who works with the sound of a word than with its meaning. Often I just choose the words because of the rhythm not because of the meaning.

Tom Barbash

One good thing the teaching has given me is the ability to read and revise my own work.

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Susan Rebecca White has a keen sense for how her characters talk and think. An impressive debut.

Character, Debut, Keen, Think, Thinking, White

Of course I'd sometimes have characters from downstate living upstate, but it took a while for me to start writing about where I grew up.

Character, Downstate, Sometimes, Start, Upstate, Writing

When I teach, I try to assign writers from whom I can learn.

Assign, I Can, Teach, Trying, Writers

When you teach, it's sometimes necessary to consciously not write for a month or two - and then pick a time in the future to sink back in. It makes you less frustrated and more in control. I do best when I give myself breaks and come back hungry.

Future, Give, Giving, Hungry, Two, Writing

I'll write about California someday, I imagine, but I don't know when.

California, Imagine, Know, Someday, Writing

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Michel de Montaigne

Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des loix toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie. (There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. )

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Chris Rock

When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children.

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Sean Penn

Fulfilling what you start is why you start something.

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Ian Mcewan

I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in fact, I think the profession rose quite honorably to the task. Novelists require a slower turnover, I mean, in time.

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Mike Patton

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