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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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- Nov 07, 2020
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out wanting to be an actor and I like to give actors as much as possible. I love writing stuff where they can really lose control.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dysfunctional co-dependent relationships always appeal to me. I don't know exactly how it started. I start writing sketches of characters and little scene-lets, and then it builds.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm writing something and I'm not feeling mischievous, then I know it's not going to be great.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being.
- Nov 07, 2020
In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.
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If I don't feel like writing on a certain day, I just go to the cafe and hang around.
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Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
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- Nov 07, 2020