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Writing Quotes by Tina Fey
- It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.
- We writers dream of a future where actors are mostly computer generated and their performances can be adjusted, by us, on a laptop, alone.
- Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
- Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're…
- I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.
- Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.
- Twitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I'm old-fashioned…
- You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.
- I dreamed of being an actress when I was a little kid because you don't know then that the writer writes everything the actor is…
- It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don’t like something, it is empirically not good. I don’t like Chinese food,…
- It's a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your…
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- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov