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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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
- Tell
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- Nov 07, 2020
In lots of ways, I've been trying to tell stories this way since I started writing plays: a female-centered story with queer, Latinx gaze.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
The things about my childhood that I really loved the most, writing about those things was hard because I knew they would never happen again.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
In TV writing, Armando Iannucci's satire 'The Thick of It' is brilliant - equal parts hysterically funny, terrifyingly believable, and Oh-my-God-I-can't-believe-he-actually-said-that - and it's got the most satisfyingly creative insults ever.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always looking for the potential mystery in everything; I can't imagine writing about anything else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's OK to screw up. For me, this was the big revelation when I was writing my first book, 'In the Woods': I could get it wrong as many times as I needed to.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020