- Myself
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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
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
A surprising number of teens I meet in rougher schools around the country find refuge in novels and creative writing. It's not always the usual suspects either, the high achievers.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is certainly no one 'type' of writer who deliberately draws on Shakespeare. In fact, there's a strong argument that everyone writing in the English language is influenced by Shakespeare because, to a considerable degree, he shaped that language.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
To say that creative writing courses are all useless is almost as silly as saying all editors are useless. Writers of all levels can benefit from other instructive voices.
- Evident
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first started, everything happened at once. I became religious, my musical career took off, I got married, I had kids, and all that happened within the course of a year. I had an excitement about this newly found faith, and so I was writing about that in a very evident kind of way.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
- Sometimes
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.
- Enchanted
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- Nov 07, 2020
With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things I was when I wrote that. But it is my story as I was then.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never thought about writing a novel. But I had two young kids, and I realized that if I could write a novel, I could work at home.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020