- 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
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
My feeling is that I don't really care about the genre or the size of the movie. I care about the quality of the writing and the quality of the characters.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.
- Heavy Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks and crannies.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing 'House Of Suns,' there were a few writers I had in mind as role models, the main being Gene Wolfe.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a genre writer - I chose to be one, I ended up one, I still am one, and I'm not writing transgressive, genre-blurring fiction. I write 'core SF' - it may occasionally incorporate horror or noir tropes, but it's not pretending to be anything other than what it is.
- Necessity
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020