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Steve Martin on finding your authentic voice

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

The Power of Writing

I've only ever done one thing since I was 20 years old. 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 this 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. Then inadvertently I got asked to write something for The New Yorker from Tina Brown. Now I write song lyrics and I write plays and librettos but they're really all versions of the same activity. They're all writing.

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