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.
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The script for 'Thirteen' is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer.
I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been writing a novel and a handful of short stories every year since '91.
I really only have been seriously writing, finishing things and publishing things since January '91.
In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
I've always kept writing. There's never been a moment where I went through a spell where I just don't write.
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.
Writing, for me, is an inherent part of understanding the material on a deeper level.
I do enjoy the form of things. I enjoy finding the form that seems best to fit what I'm thinking about. I don't set out to find a bizarre way of writing.
When you have good writing, the rhythm of the scene is very apparent. What the scene demands is very clear.
What's interesting to me is how many vampire/urban fantasy authors are writing young adult series as well, often set in the same world as their adult books, but focused on a younger audience.
All writing and publishing is very difficult, regardless of genre. There are going to be obstacles no matter what.
I didn't learn much about writing at Sarah Lawrence, but I learned a lot about the sources of poems - dreams, myth, history - from the really great teachers, Joseph Campbell, Charles Trinkhaus, Bert Loewenberg, and a young Australian anthropologist...
