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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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to think that if I had a choice between writing well and living well, I would choose the former. But now I think that's sheer lunacy. Writing weighs so much less, in the great cosmic equation, than living.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm dyslexic, which means I have trouble reading and writing. So images really speak to me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I enjoy most about writing historical romance is researching inspiring backgrounds and settings.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started writing, I didn't have the common sense to use a pseudonym, so I write under my own name. If I did have a pen name, though, it would be something very historical - something that sounds very sort of Regency... Sophia something.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find writing really hard, but then, every author I know finds writing really hard work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In crime fiction, I cut my teeth on early Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Alan Furst. I always loved the writing of Hemingway and Faulkner. Cormac McCarthy's 'Border Trilogy' has been a huge influence; I think I read those novels four times.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
After university, I went into film. I started out making tea, managed a brief stint as an assistant director, then found myself writing a screenplay. In the end, I wrote quite a few - but by January 2006, I wanted out.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into writing film scripts. 'Tigerman' is shorter, tighter, more crafted.
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- Nov 07, 2020