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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
- Forms
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a lot of flak originally for writing with photographs, because the great cliche in photography is that one photograph is worth a thousand words, and photographers are usually dodo birds anyway.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.
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- Nov 07, 2020