Writing Quotes
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Acting and writing are the things I like doing. I don't like presenting that much.
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Yeah, writers do hate writing.
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I don't see writing as a communication of something already discovered, as "truths" already known. Rather, I see writing as a job of experiment. It's like any discovery job; you don't know what's going to happen until you try it.
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I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.
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When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.
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As long as I'm creating, I am happy... whether directing, producing, writing, acting.
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Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.
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Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.
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I don't sit down with a goal of writing. I read books or magazines. I watch TV. I go to the doctor. I get on airplanes. I live a normal life and sometimes I'll notice something or read things or experience things.
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I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I feel about the issues of the day, but I guess I don't want to write essays in my head about my craft and maybe it's because I teach and talk about craft of other writers as a reader. I feel the moment I start doing that is when it's going to kill me.
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There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
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I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.
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I woke up one day and thought: I want to write a book about the history of my body. I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.
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So many people in the Western World are just automatically made ill by any sort of frank writing about sexual matters.
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You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.
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My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.
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I've always loved writing. It was always what I wanted to do.
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The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.
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We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
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Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
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I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the Great American Novel.
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I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing.
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Overall, The Population Bomb was probably too optimistic. I was writing about climate change - Anne and I actually wrote the book. We discussed whether or not you'd have to take a gondola to the Empire State Building, and that sort of thing, but we didn't know at the time whether the climate change would be in the direction of heating or cooling. We just didn't know enough about it.
