- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read 'The Conspiracy Against the Human Race' and found it incredibly powerful writing. For me as a reader, it was less impactful as philosophy than as one writer's ultimate confessional: an absolute horror story, where the self is the monster.
- Film And TV
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for 'True Detective' was one of them.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left the University of Chicago's creative writing program for a tenure-track job at DePauw University in Indiana, then left DePauw in 2010 for Los Angeles.
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- Nov 07, 2020
At DePauw, I was teaching writing and fiction. The things I wanted to teach, more than anything else, were form and theory of the novel, of narrative. I liked those classes.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Atlantic' really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always, by an involuntary act of defensiveness, return to my everyday self: so, I find, have I withdrawn from writing about experiences which have most closely concerned and disturbed me. I have been deflected by my own reticence.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.
- Quiet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and writing.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020