- Process
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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
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In weeks when I was writing a novel, I followed a five-day schedule, doing about thirty pages a day, so a typical Ace novel would take me six or seven days to write.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
- Narrative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
- Fiction Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
- Pencil
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- Nov 07, 2020
A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
- Entertainment Business
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- Nov 07, 2020