- 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
- Examining
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write songs, I'm just writing stories, and being in musical theatre taught me how to act them out through singing.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been good at talking about my feelings; that helps with writing songs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020