Steve Martin Quotes
I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in my head and think of a visual of the song. If I can't think of a visual behind the song, I'll throw the song away.
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I changed my writing style deliberately. My first two novels were written in a very self-consciously literary way. After I embraced gay subject matter, which was then new, I didn't want to stand in its way. I wanted to make the style as transparent as possible so I could get on with it and tell the story, which was inherently interesting.
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Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
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I think the way to be a writer is to experience things, certainly, and be open to things, but at some point to become dedicated to the craft of writing and to create a stable environment for that writing to occur in.
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I didn't have a desk to write 'Red Queen' on, so I got a nice writing desk.
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.
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I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.
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I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.
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All good writing comes out of aloneness.
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I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.
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Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
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When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
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Every new writing project, every new artistic project, needs to be protected so it can grow on its own before it begins to creep out into the world.
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I was fortunate that Yale has a very open and creative law school. I took many courses outside the law school, and every semester, the students had a literature reading group. I was asked to lead one on 'Dante and the Concept of Justice,' and it was around that time that I began writing the novel.
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My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.
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When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see.
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I'm writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I've already written.
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My body wasn't made to look good in a string bikini. It was made to feed and nurture a child.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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I never sleep before 4 A.M. and usually play 'Sonic the Hedgehog' computer games before bed. I like Sonic - he reminds me of Happy, my hamster that died. I used to stay up and watch Happy.
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For a musician, music is the best way to unite with God.
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I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.
