- 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
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that's not why I write.
- Far Away
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scripts were rather scarce in 1968. We did a lot of Amiri Baraka's plays, the agitprop stuff he was writing. It was at a time when black student organizations were active on the campuses, so we were invited to the colleges around Pittsburgh and Ohio, and even as far away as Jackson, Mississippi.
- Attention Spans
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- Nov 07, 2020
With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
- Insight
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- Nov 07, 2020
George Orwell is a pinnacle writer, for his combination of moral insight and literary writing.
- Expression
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
My greatest qualification for writing fiction was my ability to lie with a straight face as a child.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no idea when I moved to Nashville people just were songwriters. I had no idea. So I guess I was selling myself as a singer when I first moved here. But then right after I first moved, I started writing a lot.
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020