- 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
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was constantly in the studio at my home writing ideas that would later become 'Hotel California' or 'Victim of Love.'
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I am writing down something and it is my idea, my imagination, it won't be fact.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot and try to put their voices into their character.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have a chance to take all the ideas that are buried inside of my novels and work with them directly.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My heroes were Eddie Van Halen - especially after Van Halen I, II, III, and IV - Randy Rhoads, Ace Frehley and dudes like that. My brother played drums and we jammed in the garage and started writing our own stuff.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had a lot of writers, in particular, who said they got into writing because of the 'Van Dyke Show.' They said it looked like fun.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020