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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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't make my living writing; I make my living as a producer and as a director.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marc Cherry is so good at writing himself into a corner, then writing himself out of that corner. It's really fun to watch that.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing 'Father Ted' with Arthur Mathews was like being hooked up to a drip full of endorphins.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writing of 'The Ladykillers' was fun. But once it goes out of your hands it's not fun, 'especially for someone who is used to being hands-on like me.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area of my writing that I think I've got surer at as I've evolved.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I've always felt that my writing goes more to that than what I did when I came to Australia.
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- Nov 07, 2020