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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
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs... I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one thing I learned in my philosophy training - if you're writing a paper on Aristotle, you have to first show that you understand him. Then you can make your counterargument.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more powerfully and stealthily than speeches, or even legislation. Imagined worlds can lodge deeply in the private sphere, dislodging much else, especially when the public sphere is fragile.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what other people do. It's the same with my writing. I write what I know. Structurally, I write in a very undisciplined way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what a black writer has to do. I didn't have the burden of representation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're writing a detective novel or horror or sci-fi, you want to expand or reinvigorate the genre in your own little way.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had to give up everything else and keep just one aspect of the job, I'd have to keep writing because I love it. Yes, I enjoy performing, too. But I couldn't give up writing material.
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- Nov 07, 2020