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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
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
- Nov 07, 2020
We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
- Hardest
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that I couldn't pronounce certain words at all. She thought that if I wrote something, I would use words I could pronounce. I began writing little poems. I began to write short stories, too.
- Fiction Writers
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- Nov 07, 2020
However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
- Israel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have on my wall right now a front page of the 'Journal' from January 1991, when I co-wrote a front-page story about Iraq firing missiles at Israel. By October, I was writing about tech products.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hard writing makes easy reading.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020