- 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
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent.
- Cool Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.
- Nov 07, 2020
Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like writing about it.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and figure out their different fates.
- Expensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's tremendously expensive to make a record on the basis of writing checks.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.
- Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my early books are written as if I were Indian. In England, I had started writing as if I were English; now I write as if I were American. You take other people's backgrounds and characters; Keats called it negative capability.
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- Nov 07, 2020