- 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
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is writing. It is all about telling stories, and I've been doing that for so long, in all realms, that it all feels like the same thing to me anyway.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always had a gift with writing. I can really write. I always felt like I can write movies or somehow get into that.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or hauled in as the accused.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king - and, as we all know, there's no accounting for Taste.
- Bucks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Aspen right after school and got a freelance gig writing articles for the 'Aspen Times.' I was their nightlife correspondent. They paid me fifty bucks an article.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020