- Life
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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
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference.
- Daughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love just being an actor. I love writing, but I'm not a writer. I have no aspirations to direct.
- Columns
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like writing characters that seem different from one another. So if you were to hypothetically look at a bunch of lines from books I've written, just out of context, hopefully you would be able to determine who said what. That's the goal, anyway. I try to strongly differentiate through dialogue.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for three or four days busily employed writing an account of our journey for the Governor's information.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
To make it interesting and worth doing, writing a novel has to be a leap into the unknown. I have to be unsure if I can write it; otherwise, I won't want to.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020