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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.

— Aaron Sorkin

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People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.

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Decisions are made by those who show up.

We’re never going to put this genie back in the bottle, but surely we can decide that lies are bad.

The worst crime you can commit is telling the audience something they already know, in any fashion, even for a moment.

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Strength of creative writing lies in the skill of handling words and articulating artistic expression of feelings.”

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.

William Wordsworth Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

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