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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
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In the early 1990s, my relatives in Patna, even those who had no interest in reading or writing, wanted Parker fountain pens.
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I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.
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Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.
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I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories, one of which was published in 'The Paris Review' in 1989.
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I always thought I was a writer on the inside, but after a few years of not writing, you can't make that claim anymore.
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Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.
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I have been writing since I was a kid. I also traveled a good deal for my work and did extended stays in places like Geneva.
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Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful with the echoes, you may evoke some monstrosities.
- Point Of View
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It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.
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I think I have a harder time writing about things that I am not actually going through.
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There may be fewer women historians writing on traditionally 'male' subjects, but they are outstanding in the field - like Margaret MacMillan.
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I've taken every writing class I've had available. I took classes in high school, and I took English and writing classes in community college, but I dropped out of college. I also attended a local writing workshop two years ago.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.
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I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing.
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