"We worked together with Wes Anderson writing a couple more movies together: Rushmore [1998] and Tenenbaums."
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"I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again."
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"Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing."
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"If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances."
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"The Hollywood stuff in the book tended to come later. I think it was because I was worried about leading with that stuff. I wanted to try to make sure that the other stories in the book were as interesting. I wanted to spend more time on them and craft them. The thing is, with writing, it's form or content."
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"I knew I didn't want to put anything down in writing about the first time that I had sex. I knew that I didn't want to do that."
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"The thing is, with writing, it's form or content. You need to write about something interesting or you need to write about it in an interesting way."
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"Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing."
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"For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published."
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"Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. I am not the first person to point out that writing a lot of crap doesnt sound like a particularly fruitful way to spend an entire month, even if it is November."
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"I think expression is at it's best when it comes from an honest place, so I always try to use my own life experiences, feelings, struggles, frustrations etc. as the catalyst for my song writing."
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"Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool, and is trying to forget you, since you are not free to listen to him or to belong to him."
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"If you want to write, you have to be willing to be disturbed."
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"Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say."
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"If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life."
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"I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point."
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"The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully you observe the world and its people around you, the better chance you have of writing something meaningful and well-crafted."
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"Anyone who can not write should."
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"Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover it, and they turn it to their purposes and make a living out of it, then they become not "that person," but they become "that writer" or "that doctor" or "that supervisor.""
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"Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore."
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