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Writing Quotes
The craft and habit of writing.
This set covers a filmmaker tracing an early comedic style back to college years, and advice that writing something and deciding to publish it are two separate decisions entirely. For more on the finished product, see Book.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before we really started writing our own songs in the James Gang, we'd play covers, and then, in the middle of them, we'd go for a jam for four or five minutes. At some point, we had six or seven of those sections, and we didn't need to cover other people's songs anymore.
- British Actors
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- Nov 07, 2020
American actors are very different to British actors who have generally studied and been brought up culturally with the sense that the writer is the star and that their job is to serve the writing. Whereas Hollywood actors are brought up to believe that the actor is the star, and everything and everybody is in the service of them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a pit bull from a shelter, so my whole life is centered on this dog, and I've been writing a lot of dog jokes. I should probably give up now, because I'm writing jokes about my dog.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing 'Fast Life' has been an incredible experience. It's something totally different from what I am used to.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.
- Characterized
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020