- Simplicity
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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
- Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
- Pleasures
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- Nov 07, 2020
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing plays because they are living, fluid things that are energised by the producer, designers, musicians, actors and audience.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
The songwriting process is different on every record because you're never coming from the same place when you're writing.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else.
- Punk
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school in Gainesville because it was a huge punk and folk town. So I went to class twice a week, and then I went to shows and wrote. I did a lot of music writing before I actually started playing music.
- Absolutely Not
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020