- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing for TV made way more sense than writing for magazines. And by sense, I mean money.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fantasize about the networks making a rule that each show's writing staff needs to reflect the gender and racial makeup of its audience.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been 700 or 800 songs I've written over the last 60 years, as I went through different periods of writing. I listen and marvel at how different they are and how they still stand up. They are very well done, if I must say so.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Howie Greenfield and I started writing music when I was 13 and he was 16. We lived in the same building.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'
- Devising
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love stories - devising them, writing them, reading them, watching them, being a part of them.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had just begun an M.A. in Creative Writing, and I had to write a novel, so I began writing a novel that later became 'A Life Apart.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the writing process is the same as the reading process. I want to know what happens next.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.
- Not Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.
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- Nov 07, 2020