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 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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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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I was born in Philadelphia, and I've tried to escape that city all my life. I end up writing plays that force me back to Philadelphia, at least psychologically if not physically.
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I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process.
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When I first started writing, I didn't write about scientists at all. I think I wanted a break from that part of my world.
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Even now, I change my style and clothes from one day to the next, but during high school I blended in. I think a lot of people are that way. I guess that's why I can write about an array of characters.
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A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.
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Arkansas is really, really nice. It's got the nature feel.
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It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.
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It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.
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I actually credit Twitter with fine-tuning some joke-writing skills. I still feel like I'm working at it.
