Writing Quotes
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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I'm not as funny as Chandler is. Because Chandler has thirty people writing for him.
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I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.
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I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.
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I made the mistake of writing something very, very short about Obama for this website that I write fiction for, and my father told me never do that again. And he was right. I have nothing to add to a political conversation because it's not my area.
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Encourage aspiring writers to continue writing when things are going against them, when it feels hard. Explain the typical obstacles that occur, and encourage and reassure them to continue, never to give up.
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I love writing comedy.
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I worked as an actor for many years. Then I segued to some non-fiction writing.
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When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
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How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.
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For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected.
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What it boils down to is that parenting a child with autism is a difficult job; writing about it is far easier.
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The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.
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I write everything with fountain pens. I don't know why. I've done it since I was bar mitzvahed. I was given a fountain pen, a Parker fountain pen, and I loved it, and I've never liked writing anything with pencils or ball-points.
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I think writing in a group, even though it can be a challenge - you have to be on your toes all the time - is the way the best comedy gets written. It's very, very collaborative. A lot of comedy writers are definitely introverted nerds.
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There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
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I couldn't join a marketing team or a sales team, i had to go back to writing code.
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All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.
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I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there.
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Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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I no longer practice medicine, but I can say that, for me, medicine was easier - and certainly less emotionally turbulent - than writing.
