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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
I write every first draft - almost every draft, but certainly the first - by hand on blank white pieces of paper, so I don't know how long it is as I'm writing; it just piles up, and then I input it all in my computer, and I learn how long it is.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When writing fiction, you only have to know enough to be convincing on the page. I mean really convincing, of course - but you don't need academic depth.
- Nov 07, 2020
Only occasionally do I read new fiction. Most of my reading is heavily dictated by what I'm writing at the time.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always felt that my way into comedy would be through my writing rather than my acting.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid and wanted to grow up to be a writer, I assumed I would be writing about animals and children because that's what I cared about and read about. But I never did.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing novels is the most exciting.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing anything as an expert is really poisonous to the writing process, because you lose the quality of discovery.
- Hidden
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.
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- Nov 07, 2020