- Me
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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
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
In TV writing, I felt like Gulliver being tied down by the Lilliputians. There's so much more freedom in fiction writing.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned that comedy is born out of strong characters. I won't begin writing a character until I have a clear take on them.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I naively thought I would quit television writing, move up to Seattle, my novel would come out, and then I'd have a novel writing career, and so I found myself really stuck in this very poisonous self-pitying state and felt like I'd never write again. And I blamed Seattle for that.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I was writing 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' I started to appreciate Seattle's many charms.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved 'Dexter.' I loved the writing of 'Dexter.' I thought that was a brilliant show, and Michael C. Hall was just brilliant.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering conventions. The old ways of painting, writing, sculpting, and composing no longer seemed adequate to capture the world.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me.
- Bad Stuff
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- Nov 07, 2020