Terence Tao (1975) Australian mathematician
and thus is one of the previous two types of problem
Source: Solving Mathematical Problems (2nd ed., 2006), Ch. 1 : Strategies in problem solving
“Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?”
Introduction, Section I, p. ix <br class="br">The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)
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Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist
"The Sadistic Muse" - an interview with Laura Miller at salon.com (10 February 1998) http://web.archive.org/web/20000110052318/http://www.salon.com/books/int/1998/02/cov_si_10int.html <br class="br">Context: It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks.
Jack Kerouac book Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings
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“For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.”
Françoise Sagan (1935–2004) French writer
Paris Review interview (1956)
Context: For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
David Lee Roth (1954) Rock vocalist; lead singer with Van Halen
Brett Thomas (October 16, 1988) "Roth 'N' Roll: Flashy - But David's A Shrewd Businessman", The Sun-Herald, Section: News and Features, p. 25.