- Friends
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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
- Crafting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no safety in anything, but in the arts, there is really this idea of no promises. I didn't follow the writing dream for safety.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the best writing I've done, whether I'm shooting a story or thinking of a script, I write it in my head as I'm running. Running literally jogs my brain.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really into the 'classic' thing - the craft of writing something that will last, that won't die by next year.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really focus on if what I'm writing is pop or not. I just write music and then I try to figure out how to arrange the things that I write.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
- Other
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020