- Children
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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
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is transmogrifying, not just for the reader but also for the author; an author becomes someone he or she isn't by living the lives of his or her characters.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm much more interested in writing about the things that engage and enrage me as an adult rather than in wallowing in childhood sorrows.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very skeptical guy: my willing suspension of disbelief doesn't go very far when I'm reading other people's SF, and it goes even less far when I'm writing my own.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our ad campaign with Pfizer is educational. Lipitor is the most widely prescribed drug in the country. For every prescription, there is a doctor writing it. It's a huge vote of confidence.
- Nov 07, 2020
Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
- Evaluate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every so often, it's time to make a change with a showrunner; you evaluate the creative and how the show is run, how the writing staff works.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like writing - it's so difficult to say what you mean. It's much easier to edit other people's writing and help them say what they mean.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got out of the Army, I started writing the usual 'Catcher in the Rye' imitations, and then I wrote something that was done Off-Off Broadway in a theater. It was called 'What Else Is There?' and it was four or five people playing missiles in a silo waiting to take off.
- Advising
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020