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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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Around A.D. 930, the sages in Tiberias assembled all 24 holy books and completed the writing of the codex, the first definitive Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible. From Tiberias, the codex was taken to Jerusalem.
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As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.
- Dialects
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I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.
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For me, there is urgency in fiction, even though writing is, in itself, an act against the corrosiveness of time.
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My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.
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When I became a parent I forgot about the part of myself which was very emotional, very dour a little depressed - but very good at writing emotional songs.
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I was writing 'He Who Shapes' when I was working for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore.
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When I got to college, I didn't take writing classes, just the standard freshman composition class.
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I love the writing of Walter Tevis and what he views as the possibilities of science rather than science fiction.
- Creative Writing
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I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade.
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Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing.
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I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down.
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