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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use my fiction to explore my own unconscious issues. I usually don't even know what's going on with me until I'm writing. That doesn't mean my books are autobiographical.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although psychoanalysis has influenced me personally, it has had curiously little influence on my writing. This may be because writers learn from other writers, not from theories.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an observer, I'm analysing my reactions, I guess, and my thinking; but about the process of writing... I am not very talented at talking about what I do as a writer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fantasy setting, that writer must realize that excessive coincidence makes the fictional reality the writer is creating less 'real.'
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
My feeling is that writing Fantasy should be harder - not easier - than writing any other kind of fiction.
- Book Signings
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings. Each calls for different skills. None of these skills, needless to say, are those that go into writing books.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.
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- Nov 07, 2020