- Fire
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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
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing fiction is an act of imaginative empathy.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
After finishing my undergraduate work at the University of Iowa, where I took creative writing classes taught by Writer's Workshop students, I applied to half a dozen MFA writing programs.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way I seem to be able to keep going while I'm writing is to munch my way through boxes of chocolates.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing 'The Noonday Demon' turned me into a professional depressive, which is a weird thing to be. A class at the university I attended assigns the book and invited me to be a guest lecturer.
- Random
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often think of random melodies. And I pretty much hear in my head what I want to do with the orchestra as I'm writing on the piano.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've thrived on people writing me off. Because if you write me off, I'll shut you up.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Allowing alternative narrative modes in popular entertainment may seem obvious, yet when you turn a pilot into the people upstairs and the main character isn't after what she wants by the top of page two, you get treated as if you've failed at writing.
- Composers
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.
- Hard Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. When I first started writing, I just started writing a novel. It's a hard way to learn to write. I don't recommend it to my students, but it just happens that way for some of us.
- Fighting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.
- Efficiently
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- Nov 07, 2020