- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of writing, to me, was, from the beginning, was writing something which was a little different from the ordinary exchange of speech. It was something that had a certain formality, something in which the words were of interest in themselves.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't imagine ever writing anything of any kind on a machine. I never tried to write either poetry or prose on a typewriter. I like to do it on useless paper, scrap paper, because it's of no importance.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I could write with a little pencil, I was writing these little hymns and illustrating them, and I thought they should be sung in church, but they never were.
- Content
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Initially, I thought that Ethereum was a thing that would be used for people to write simple financial scripts. As it turns out, people are writing stuff like Augur on top of it.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first started writing historical fiction in the late '70s and kept pictures of Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rogers on my refrigerator until my first book was published by Avon in 1982. The biggest advantage of this genre for me is that it allows me to blend fact and fiction.
- Age
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- Nov 07, 2020
We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing songs at age 15.
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.
- Nov 07, 2020
In 2007, I probably wrote four screenplays in the entire year. Every three months I was writing a screenplay.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love writing but it's a real pain. It's a miserable process - very satisfying but very miserable.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020