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Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.

~Bryan Burrough

Topics: Able All Day Amount Being Computer Daily Day Demanding Drudgery Editor Exactly Get Glamorous Happy Juggling Just Love Love Is Make Much Noun Paid Room Routine Said Screen Something Staring Thing Unless Wonderful Wonderful Thing Writer You Yourself

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You're more likely to finish a book you enjoy, than one that feels like literary drudgery.

~Carmen Agra Deedy

Topics: Book Drudgery Enjoy Feels Finish Like Likely Literary More Than You

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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

~Charles Babbage

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Groceries became a revelation: the people coming out with bundles of food. It's all like a great ceremony, and the whole drudgery of shopping has become my inspiration.

~Corita Kent

Topics: Became Become Ceremony Coming Drudgery Food Great Groceries Inspiration Like Out People Revelation Shopping Whole

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I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.

~Dave Gibbons

Topics: About Attraction Being Drudgery Enthusiastic Known Lot Out Process Takes Technology Using Very Way

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If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!

~Don Bluth

Topics: Best Both Both Worlds Computers Drawing Drudgery Joy Just Leave Machines Out Take Then Those Us Use Worlds

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