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Steve Martin on finding your authentic voice

ReThinking

CHAPTER

The Power of Writing

I was fascinated by the truth that Steve could do something that was really accomplished without flattery, like write a novel. And Steve wrote three novels, and each one was more interesting than the previous one. There is a through line for me, and I'll just tell you what it is. Stand up comedy. And I'm writing things for that, writing things for stand up. But remember, I started with the mother's brother's comedy hour as a writer, so I'm writing sketches. So I have this little experience with writing sketches and with writing stand up, and then movies happen.

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