- Drawing
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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
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I liked about 'Silver Bell' is that I barely knew how to play in the tuning I was writing in, and I just went for it anyway.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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- Nov 07, 2020