- 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 playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero.
- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is not my job.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to love writing in my journal.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My writing is authentic, and whatever happens in my life is what I write about.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I could have the tabloids stop writing as much about me, and still get paid the same amount that I do, then I'd be quite happy. But I suppose it comes with the other things. If I'm not in the public eye, and then I'm not wanted, and I'm not getting endorsements, I'm not being talked about, my records aren't going to be bought.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.
- Typing
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- Nov 07, 2020