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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
Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels... tacky.
- Life
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Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
- Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written so many verses and keep on writing so many more that I became afraid that if I didn't write them into one big book, I might forget some of them.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.
- Easy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and waited until all three were in school before I started writing.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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- Nov 07, 2020