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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
- Finally
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- Nov 07, 2020
While writing 'The Orientalist,' I played a soundtrack that alternated between ragtime and Azeri mugams, Russian operas and German and Italian pop songs from the 1920s and 30s. When I finally finished, I gorged on all my music from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.
- Nov 07, 2020
As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Josh Ozersky was a meat man. He knew meat, revered it, studied it, sang it, evangelized it, wrote about it, and, of course, ate it. Lots of it. Life, for Josh, was meat, and writing. Everything else was a side.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Batman's not mine. He doesn't necessarily belong to me. As a character, he belongs first to the audience and second to the hundreds of writers who have been writing him in comics for 75 years.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to box myself into writing just rock music because you can try to force it into moments that don't want it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really think in terms of making something that is going to be bought everywhere, because I don't read those things. My writing is a process in which I try my best to make good sentences and a sequence of events that is compelling and believable.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like writing songs - I keep saying that one day I'll do something with them, but I haven't yet.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I can't live without acting or drama and writing - I also run a theater company.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vast volumes of mixed media surround us, from music to games and videos. Yet almost all of our online actions still begin and end with writing: text messages, status updates, typed search queries, comments and responses, screens packed with verbal exchanges and, underpinning it all, countless billions of words.
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- Nov 07, 2020