- Music
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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
- Lines
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've written a lot of songs in the last couple years, but writing a lot of songs doesn't always mean writing good songs.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not writing songs to solve a cultural problem. The goal for us is to express what we're going through, and it's great if people find commonality in that.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing two shows a day, but I don't tweet. I don't want to have to express my opinion in 140 characters. That's like writing haiku. You need a certain amount of legroom to review a play properly.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a chapter in a book, every bit as tedious and hopeless and halting. But this is not to say that the piano hasn't helped my writing. It has, just not in the ways I expected.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.
- Limited
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- Nov 07, 2020