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In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.


Gore Vidal


#best #just #just do it #think #writing

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.


Tim Vine


#access #childlike #comic #get #important

I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum.


Tim Vine


#coffee #dates #day #deadline #every

Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.


Joan D. Vinge


#escaped #fragment #goddess #had #head

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.


Joan D. Vinge


#after #characters #decided #female #female characters

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.


Vernor Vinge


#consciousness #cultural #decades #easy #eighteen

When I was writing, I genuinely believed each word was my own.


Kaavya Viswanathan


#each #genuinely #i #my own #own

I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.


Sarah Vowell


#assassinations #attended #dedication #discovered #each

And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.


Laura Wade


#dirty #i #joke #laugh #people

Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.


David Wain


#belongs #conceived #entirely #existed #group






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