- My Own
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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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want less and less control with music. Just playing music without any idea of composition or writing.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I use the word 'buzz' in successive sentences, it's clearly time for me to stop writing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer's duty is to keep on writing.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020