“If you've never watched people watch television, I don't recommend it. It's not an exciting thing to do.” Quote by Mitchell Hurwitz
“Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.” PastReadingInfluenceHarderMy Past Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“The world is a mysterious place and the very limitation of our senses in exploring it means we are sometimes aware of there being something beyond our ken.” WorldMeanSometimesSensesMysteriousLimitationExploring Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“I like to go through the zine sections of local bookstores when on the road and have found a lot of really great kind of underground stuff that way. It all feeds into everything else.” WayKindFoundStuffLocalsReally GreatSectionsBookstoresZines Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way.” WayWritingImportantDifferentSubjectsImportant ThingsEntryPersonal ExperiencesInstructors Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“Across all of the universe of creative lying, whether you believe in the art of it or the entertainment of it, or both, a certain foundation in the basics allows you to kind of jump out into the unknown.” BelieveKindArtLyingCertainUniverseCreativeFoundationEntertainmentBasics Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“One thing about beginning writers is that they don't really always know their own strengths and weaknesses - you might think you're bad at characterization, but that might really be because of some issue you're having with another element, which is making it hard for you to express character in a convincing way.” ThinkingKnowsWayHardCharacterMightIssuesOne ThingElementsWeaknessConvincingStrength And WeaknessCharacterizationBeginning Writers Author:Jeff VanderMeer
“That's kind of the nature of the profession I'm in. It's frustrating. Things don't go your way, and I was no exception, in that I spent many years struggling to get work, and there are a lot of people more talented than myself who got jobs before me. And I finally, after years and years and years, got lucky.” PeopleWayYearsKindJobsStruggleLuckyProfessionExceptionFrustratingFrustrating Things Author:Will Arnett
“When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous.” WritingYearsHas BeensMadeCertainEffortComfortableAreasNervousAvoided Author:Merrill Markoe
“When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.” WantedRolesAmountDramatic Author:Will Arnett
“When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindI CanYoungActorsCan DoLaughable Author:Will Arnett