- Parents
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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
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
The criteria for writing mythological books are different. Because the results are known, the end is known. Somebody has created that limit and you have to play within that limit.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been threatened occasionally. But that happens to everybody who is writing this kind of things. Threats will come without fail. It might happen to the most 'innocent' texts. If it gets too much we call the police.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.
- Take
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't take off time from teaching to write. I take time off from writing to teach.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was doing two things at once for quite a long time. I was working in television and writing novels.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Right after the keynote in which Steve Jobs introduced the iPod Shuffle, I went backstage with one question in mind: What makes an iPod an iPod? By then - January 11, 2005 - I had staked my own claim to iPod expertise, having written a 'Newsweek' cover story about Apple's transformational music player, and I was writing a book on it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful.
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- Nov 07, 2020