- 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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.
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Of course I want the things I write to reflect well on me or anyone who might feel represented by me, but also, I'm not writing a guidebook on how to be or how my people should be seen. I'm telling very specific stories.
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I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
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There's something really nice about writing something on Wednesday and watching it being performed live for a studio audience on Tuesday. You never really get that with novels.
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The most joyful part of writing, for me, is when I am 90% there, and suddenly the story clicks into place, and things finally start to make sense.
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I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
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Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.
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I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.
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Everything about video games has changed. The writing, the acting, the visuals, obviously - everything has gone to a new level. And the difference that I see as an actor is that I don't have to push that extra bit to sell what's going on.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying. I've never been happier.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing about carrying the past on your back is a manifestation of my Irishness, because we go on and on and will for another two or three generations.
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