To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard. Allen Ginsberg
Category: Writing Inspiration
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Mike White on his brilliant HBO series Enlightened It's funny, when we turned in the pilot, Mike Lombardo, the head of HBO, said, "It's not really a comedy, is it?" And I was like, "Well, it's definitely more dramatic than your comedies." And he said, "It's more dramatic than our dramas." Sometimes when you write … Continue reading QOTD
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Sharks' Teeth Everything contains some silence. Noise gets its zest from the small shark's-tooth- shaped fragments of rest angled in it. An hour of city holds maybe a minute of these remnants of a time when silence reigned, compact and dangerous as a shark. Sometimes a bit of a tail or fin can still be … Continue reading QOTD
(More) Screenwriters on Twitter
Just updated our list of professional screenwriters on Twitter so you can follow to your hearts content. Some are even charter and current members of theOffice.
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When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them. Karen Russell, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
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Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn't know this either, but love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! … Continue reading QOTD
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I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before. Lena Dunham
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Today's quote from Quentin Tarantino discussing his new film Django Unchained. One of the things that's interesting about Westerns in particular is [that] there's no other genre that reflects the decade that they were made or the morals and the feelings of Americans during that decade [more] than Westerns. Westerns are always a magnifying glass … Continue reading QOTD
Q(s)OTD… the Woody Allen edition
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good. I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. I’m astounded by people who want to ‘know’ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. … Continue reading Q(s)OTD… the Woody Allen edition
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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. Bill Vaughan
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