- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life?
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first got my record deal, I was like, 'I just want to sing,' and I never put much thought into what really goes into a record. But as I got older, I developed a passion for writing.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
- French Revolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
- Nov 07, 2020
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
In writing, one searches, and that is what keeps one writing, that one sees and experiences things from another angle entirely; one experiences oneself during the process of writing.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no conceit as a writer; in fact, I find it very difficult to start writing about sculpture generally & my aims in particular.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020