- 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
- Commitment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.
- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started writing 'Luck in the Shadows,' I just wanted to create an adventure story.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Realism isn't something most people associate with the fantasy genre, yet it's an essential element of great fantasy writing.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
My best writing has to do with an internal process that I'm working out unconsciously and put into my characters.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great Chicano forebear of mine in writing is Rolando Hinojosa-Smith. He was writing good border mysteries for Chicano readers back in the '80s and '90s.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Speaking and writing English perfectly should not be a privilege. To those who try to politicize this matter, I tell them now, do not mess with the future of our children.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020