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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
- Want
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done well because I'm lucky and I'm willing to be collaborative with the one thing you don't want to be collaborative with: your writing.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing.
- Doors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.
- Level
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers of an elevated level. So all in all, a good thing.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020