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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first book deal was for two Mark Genevich novels. I hadn't planned on writing a second Genevich novel, but I was contracted to do so, and so there I was being introduced as a crime writer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way I was educated, maybe from just inhaling something in the air back then, I grew up believing that E. B. White occupied the apex of essay writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I've learned from animation is that some guys are really good at writing, some guys are really good at design, some guys are really good at directing. It's almost like working in a band - not everybody plays every instrument.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my favorite things I read was John Steinbeck's journals while he was writing 'East of Eden,' which was so cool.
- Good Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am baffled by good writing.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need to be taught moral notions such as the wrongness of harming another person.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing, I generally toy with an idea until it manifests itself - meaning a phrase or a tune comes into my head and eventually begins to jell. When something hits me, I write it down immediately. I don't wait, or it's gone.
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- Nov 07, 2020