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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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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have kids, a mortgage, or a car. That has let me hold out for the jobs I want to do, and to sit in a cold room in the winter with fingerless gloves, writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a novelist. I'm not a crusader, and I'm not an editorial writer. And I'm not writing fiction to convince anybody of anything.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm writing all the time. I tend to work on at least two books simultaneously. I'll spend time with one, and then I'll spend time with the other. Finishing takes whatever time it takes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing 'The Lobster Kings' the day after I sold my first novel, 'Touch.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Gene Weingarten's feature writing with the passion of a thousand suns.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.
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- Nov 07, 2020