- 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
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have ten thousand memories of myself writing alone in basements, bizarre servant quarters, cemeteries, deserted fountains, the band van, and other awkward settings.
- Silence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't imagine writing a novel without some sound. When you're facing a few hundred blank pages, silence can be cold.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are 48 individuals. It's not, you know, a preset on a keyboard. It's all these people who have opinions and who are making decisions about how to play.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing fiction is the 'job' I try to keep at the center of things. The movie stuff has been a wonderful accident, though not entirely bizarre, either, as I have done some work in film before, and even directed a ridiculous, cable-access feature back in my 20s.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.
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- Nov 07, 2020