- 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
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process of writing has always started for me when I put myself in a place where no one distracts me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm supposed to be taking time off. But I'm still writing and I have this Gap advert lined up.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm writing exactly the kinds of books I like to write. And they're the kinds of books I like to read. They're popular commercial fiction. That's what they are.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing to save my life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm at a point in my life where I'm not going to be writing about NATO or NAFTA.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just after writing those we were called up to defend a new position on the left, where the terrible storming of the bridge over the Antietam took place.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not pretend to write much of a letter. You know under what circumstances I am writing.
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- Nov 07, 2020