- People
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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
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing that's really delightful is my books tend to attract people who are funny, so I get the benefit of people writing me with things that crack me up.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't read reviews if I know in advance they're negative, because I can't have my confidence undermined when I'm writing.
- Diction
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from what I read on Goth blog sites.
- True
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way that I process and make writing work is I'm really telling true stories; I'm just putting them in a cape and putting an 'S' on its chest.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no such thing as Christian art or secular art - writing, painting, drawing, whatever it is.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written under the radar for quite some time, and I always looked at editing as writing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist.
- Luckily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've rewritten other films and watched my writing be mutilated, but luckily, it's been mutilated anonymously.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020