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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and journals, but that's when it switched for me to songwriting. That's when I wanted to do everything. It was like a fire all of a sudden. I started coming to Nashville and moved here when I was 15.
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I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane.
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- Nov 07, 2020
They're mostly done before we went into the studio, although I do like writing in the studio.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing when I was, like, eleven. We couldn't afford private lessons, so I had to teach myself how to sing through recording songs on GarageBand.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching 'Scooby Doo.'
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It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of storytelling.
- Creative Writing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory. I like the atmospheres that result if episodes are narrated through the haze of memory.
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- Nov 07, 2020
After college, I moved to Breckenridge, Colorado, and went snowboarding every day. I didn't know what I wanted to do, but I knew what I didn't want to do. So I applied to grad school for writing, and I just gave it a shot and took it from there.
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I love film and have taken a stab at a screenplay. I love writing dialogue and found it highly enjoyable.
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I was an athlete, so I have kind of an athletic sensibility towards writing. I can work for many long hours without fatiguing.
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- Nov 07, 2020