- Creative Writing
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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.
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I subscribe to about 200 blogs. I look for insights and good writing, and I look to get smarter.
- Finding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm finding writing very fascinating.
- Feature Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it.
- Desk
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- Nov 07, 2020
Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.
- Now And Then
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in Beijing, writing about politically sensitive things now and then, you get used to the idea that somebody, somewhere, might be watching. But it is usually an abstract threat.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been writing since I was a kid and thought what I wrote down could one day be made into a book.
- Happenings
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020