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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
- Few
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Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
- English Teacher
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I became a poet in Pittsburgh. When I lived in the South, I was a basketball player and primarily a jock. An English teacher essentially suggested that I send the poems that I'd been writing - really just for him - to a few programs, so that when I wound up in Pittsburgh, it's where I figured out that I could actually be a poet.
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'What time is it,' you ask? According to 16 of my dearest writing pals, it's always time for a wonderful romance!
- I Am
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I am a novelist. I traffic in subtleties, and my goal in writing a novel is to leave the reader not knowing what to think. A good novel shouldn't have a point.
- Interest
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I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.
- Think
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I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
- End
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We have big limitations by not having a drummer. It instantly informs a lot of our musical decisions when it comes to writing. What we end up coming out with is not very cerebral music.
- Place
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
- Make
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
- Fiction Writers
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