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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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Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't listen to anything when I'm writing. I need total quiet, which is astounding, given that I spent years working for a newspaper and having to write features surrounded by ringing phones and people shouting.
- Love
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I grew up with older brothers, adore them, can't imagine going through life without them, and I definitely think I draw on that love when I'm writing about siblings. It's so powerful, the jump-in-front-of-a-train-to-protect-them kind of love.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining. Copper is huge here, and now uranium. And then we have the federal government coming in, writing all these rules and regulations and telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. We need concise, clear answers.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Advertising isn't just the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought. At every company that sells ads, a significant portion of their engineering team spends their day tuning data mining, writing better code to collect all your personal data.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
That has been my outlet and a way to provide for my child - writing songs for myself and for other artists.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know I'm only as good as the material I've got to work with. I'm not an alchemist, not when it comes to writing or production.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Privacy has become the most precious thing. Things have got more cryptic in my writing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gone periods of maybe four months without writing anything, but it's not a problem. It just means something's building inside you, and it'll build and it'll build, and at some point it'll come out, and it does, and it usually comes out in three or four songs, and you play it that way, really.
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- Nov 07, 2020