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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
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
- Optimism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
- Unhappy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was making the music and writing the songs which reflected the emerging consciousness of my generation.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems the more I play Jane Austen, the more poetic my writing becomes. The other day, I left a Post-it note for my husband that had the word 'ergo' on it. I gotta rein it in before I get all full out Madonnannoying.
- Listen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing when I was 11. In my late teens, I was writing short stories of every conceivable type and sent them to everything from 'Future Science Fiction' to 'The Sewanee Review.'
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020