- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everyone assumes that I talk to my parents a lot about writing, but I didn't - they're my parents. We didn't have constant workshops running in my household.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is just something I've always done. It's just kind of the reality of who I am.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing my first novel, 'Where the Line Bleeds,' which had young black men as its main characters, I was very invested in telling the story and also very worried about the effects the story would have.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I finished my first draft of 'Salvage the Bones,' I felt that I wasn't political enough. I had to be more honest about the realities of the community I was writing about.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've heard some writers say that they are obsessed with certain ideas and that they find themselves writing around the same obsession again and again, but telling different stories to get at that same idea. I'm beginning to think that I suffer from this syndrome, too.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
My cure for writer's block is to step away from the thing I'm stuck on, usually a novel, and write something totally different. Besides fiction, I write poetry, screenplays, essays and journalism. It's usually not the writing itself that I'm stuck on, but thing I'm trying to write. So I often have four or five things going at once.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.
- Famous
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.
- Book Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020