November 2011
25 posts
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Nov 30th
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“Ass and chair.”
– Tony Gilroy
Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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Nov 21st
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Nov 21st
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Nov 14th
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Nov 14th
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Nov 13th
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“I don’t ask that the audience like what I do, but I insist that they...”
– Steven Soderbergh
Nov 13th
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“I’d say that someone who draws comics for a living is very likely a guy or gal...”
– Daniel Clowes
Nov 10th
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“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Nov 9th
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“I myself am a work of fiction.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Nov 9th
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“I always think that everyone else is having a really good time, and I’m...”
– Steven Soderbergh
Nov 9th
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“I’m happy because I know that this is happy. I believe that people are...”
– Jerry Seinfeld
Nov 8th
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“How does he know what’s important? I could carve a better man out of a...”
– Philip Castle, in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle”
Nov 7th
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Nov 5th
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Nov 5th
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“Sentimentality, in all its forms, is the attempt to get some effect without...”
– John Gardner
Nov 2nd
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“In great fiction, we are moved by characters and events, not by the emotion of...”
– John Gardner
Nov 2nd
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“I am amenable to criticism but only within the sphere of what I’m trying...”
– Flannery O’Connor
Nov 2nd
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Mark Twain on writing: “Anybody can have ideas–the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.” “The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is that you really want to say.”  “Write without pay until...
Nov 2nd
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Elmore Leonard’s rules for short story writing: 1 Never open a book with weather. If it’s only to create atmosphere, and not a charac­ter’s reaction to the weather, you don’t want to go on too long. The reader is apt to leaf ahead look­ing for people. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways than an Eskimo to describe ice and snow in...
Nov 2nd
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Kurt Vonnegut’s rules for short story writing: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the...
Nov 2nd
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Nov 2nd
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Nov 1st
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October 2011
26 posts
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“Most illustrators know very little about business or writing. They just like to...”
– Fred Ludekens
Oct 31st