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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.
- Piano
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- Nov 07, 2020
I must have been five or six when I realised all the stuff I was writing made sense with what I was playing on the piano.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm pretty much writing all the time.
- Fictive
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- Nov 07, 2020
When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nora Roberts, Stephen King, Lee Child and George R. R. Martin write wildly different books. Their writing, plotting and styles have little or nothing in common. But they all write books and characters that readers find appealing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
My focus is films, and 'Angela's Eyes' is one of those TV projects that has some good TV concepts behind it and good writing.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020