- I Am
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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot say about the act of writing. In fact, I often turn to drawing to recover from the writing.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing on my own versus co-writing kind of is the exact same thing because we don't sit in the same room when we write. We're always writing alone anyway.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.'
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
My best writing is often early in the morning and, sometimes, while working out.
- Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've learned as much about writing from songwriters as I have from other writers.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sia is like no one else I've ever worked with. She comes completely from this non-logical but very emotional place. I could be wrong, but she doesn't really seem to analyse what she's writing. She doesn't really revise it, but goes with that first thing that comes out.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've politely declined a few reality-type things but generally have been asked to do things that I'd enjoy. I'll be doing less in the new year so I can get some writing done.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020