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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
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
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- Nov 07, 2020
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
- Puzzle
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always enjoyed writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked new writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenges of writing a book are very different from writing a blog or tweets. I've been writing a blog since I was in the 6th grade, so I had this style of writing that was definitely not proper for writing a book.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Creative people feel huge ownership of our content; we want everything to be done ourselves. But in book writing, there's a process: editors, PR people.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. If I walked into a creative writing class, all I could say to them was 'I tend to make it up as I go along.' I'm not sure that's brilliant advice.
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- Nov 07, 2020