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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
- Eulogy
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of life and a Sicily that was already lost by the time Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was writing.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing songs, I guess, a sense of lyricism before I started picking up the guitar. Once I picked up the guitar, I felt I started expressing myself in that medium without words.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got my first email from a record label, I decided I didn't want to go in with just one song, so I sat down and kept on writing.
- Ability
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the qualities essential to writing exciting stories, whether for page or screen, is an ability to abandon one's morality. We simply cannot be good writers and good people. One must be able to access one's darkest self, one's venality and pettiness and murderousness.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020