- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
Writing is inherently scary.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, all writing - all the arts - are a form of 'Pay attention to me,' but there's also the flip side. Like, I want to give something. Let me entertain you, let me amuse you, let me try to please you with this thing I've made. And then pay attention to me.
- One Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do.
- Nov 07, 2020
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing since I was 12 years old.
- Nov 07, 2020
I know it sounds weird for a 12-year-old to say that he wants to start writing songs, but that's what happened.
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- Nov 07, 2020