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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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The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.
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Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
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Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
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My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so I thought maybe somewhere down the line I would do some writing.
- Demanded
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In particular, with my control team, I demanded the responsibilities to do all of the mission preparation, mission design, the writing of the procedures, the development of the handbooks.
- Home
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If I'm writing about a modern-day suburb, there's going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I'm writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they'll be simplified, because I'm cartooning it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're afraid of writing characters different from ourselves because we're afraid of getting it wrong. We're afraid of what the Internet might say.
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I was tired of writing for shows where there was always a shoot-out in the last act and somebody was killed. 'Star Trek' was formulated to change that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
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If the project has good writing and is something I get excited about, then I'll do the role. And if it's for TV, I'll ask myself, 'Is it a show that I'd watch?' If it's a play or movie, I'll want to know if there's a good director attached.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to be a friend to my boys just the way my dad was with me. Subconsciously that reflects in my writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
- Nov 07, 2020