"A lot of writing is thinking." — Horton Foote
"A lot of writing is thinking."
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Horton Foote
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10 Quotes by Horton Foote
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I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about…
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Writing is the thing that props me up.
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When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid
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You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a…
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But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened…
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If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.
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I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to…
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In New York, there are a lot of plays to see, and I try to see as many as I…
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My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was…
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
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A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
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In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the…
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
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Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
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