- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
I've found it really hard to finish writing songs when you're writing on not just your schedule but somebody else's.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comics publishers are used to looking in a very, very narrow focused prism. It's like when I started writing 'X-Men.' Our 'meat and potatoes' money was made of newsstand sales, while anything that came through the Direct Market was considered gravy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elvis Costello's song writing is so peerless and individualistic. It's storytelling and it's deeply intelligent and clever.
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been writing since I was old enough to spell. I have never considered not writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very involved in political satire, and I'd been writing parody for 'Mad' and 'National Lampoon,' so I made up some strange story about Gerald Ford.
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- Nov 07, 2020