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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
- Best
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As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
- Moody
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I began writing with Mike Pinder and eventually we went on to form a new band called The M&B, which later became The Moody Blues, what I would call a progressive blues band.
- Memories
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My fondest memories are of being hidden away in Scotland or Spain writing and working on songs for Wings.
- Big
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A script arrived, and on the front cover - scrawled really big, as if it were a book report - is 'Django Unchained, written by Quentin Tarantino.' And I thought, 'Well, no art department came up with this; this is Quentin's writing.'
- Jesus Christ
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I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?
- Chauffeur
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I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffeur - do whatever it took. But from the moment I took my first writing workshop, I was a writer.
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I have two children. They are more fun than anything in the world, and it's more immediate fun than the hard slog of writing.
- Ocean
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I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
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When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
- Funny
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I used to like writing for comedians - I enjoyed the challenge of making other people funny.
- Never
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Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again.
- Nice
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All the nice things about Suzanne are me. All the things that aren't nice, that was just the writing.
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I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.
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I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them.
- I Am
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