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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
- Exercise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
In writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars,' I had the freedom to go beyond the original script and add asides, soliloquys and even new scenes. The main characters all get a soliloquy or two - or in Luke's case, several.
- Distinguished
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- Nov 07, 2020
Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
- Nov 07, 2020
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
- Professional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
An hour or two spent in writing from dictation, another hour or two in reading aloud, a little geography and a little history and a little physics made the day pass busily.
- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of writing is thinking.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foreign journalists have to have an approved interpreter assigned them, which they have to pay for, who also acts as guide. As an Iranian, even writing for foreign media, I've been mercifully unrestricted.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing with intent to publish on January 1st, 1985, when, as my New Year's resolution, I resolved to finish a book before I turned 25. It's one of only a few New Year's resolutions I remember keeping - I finished that one with a couple weeks to spare.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I earned my writing stripes with a large man's shoebox overflowing with rejection slips... more than 100 before I got my first, 'Yes, we want this,' accompanied by a check.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a fast writer, and I find the process of writing a first draft to be painful and frustrating. Usually, I start with a character, a premise, and some image that gives me a particular feeling.
- Cow
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- Nov 07, 2020