- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
I actually enjoy writing longer books because you have even more to get your storytelling teeth into.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing about young people.
- Follow
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Overall, I adhere to the one guiding rule any author writing historical fiction should follow: whatever you describe has to be possible. It may not be common, obvious, or even all that probable, but it absolutely has to be possible.
- Proud
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I want a career writing these novels that I can be proud of. And then I want one as a screenwriter.
- Close Attention
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing fairly involved calculations.
- Education
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My three years at the NIH were critical in my scientific education. I learned an immense amount about the research process: developing assays, purifying macromolecules, documenting a discovery by many approaches, and writing clear manuscripts describing what is known and what remains to be investigated.
- Like
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.
- Bane
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The desk thing is a problem for me. The ideal one would be vast and perfectly clear. Yet the bane of the biographical existence is paper; if you're 'an artist under oath' you're writing from a mountain of documentation.
- Laptop
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I had to embrace just basically writing and recording on my laptop. On long drives through the Rockies, I would take my laptop and mess around with ideas and make rough sketches of songs.
- Happiness
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
No amount of money can replace the kind of happiness and satisfaction I derive out of writing.
- Living
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.
- Dangerous
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.
- Home
- |
- Nov 07, 2020