- Grow Up
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book has had a good run. For 550 years, it was the most practical way to deliver writing to multiple readers.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need all of my songs while I'm writing them, because I need to get the stuff out of my body and out of my brain. I write out of necessity, not because I want to be a pop star.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't do anything other than writing. I'm not very able, generally. If I'd not been a writer, I would probably be a very unsuccessful political adviser to someone or have worked for a council.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is one of those jobs that everyone has an opinion on. I don't think this is a bad thing.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody's going to write a book about me, because nobody's going to find anything worth writing a book about.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020