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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
The core plot of 'Mercury' is so gripping that when I thought of making it as a silent film, it only made it more interesting. Once I finished writing the first draft, making a silent film that's both thrilling and engaging seemed possible. When the film team read the final script, they felt the same.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
- One Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
It sounds pretentious to say I 'divide' my time, but when I am home, that usually means my house in Atlanta or my cabin in the North Georgia Mountains. The latter is where I do the majority of my writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to spend the next thirty years writing about bad things happening in the same small town - not least of all because people would begin to wonder why anyone still lives there!
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still an old-school reporter at heart. Writing fiction satisfies my journalistic need to hear and relay the testimony of everyday people at the center of events.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.
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- Nov 07, 2020