Screenwriter Quotes

I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore.

All men who first touch with words go much further afterwards with their hands.

Antonio Skarmeta

Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.

The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations, Silk stockings thrown aside, dance invitations: Oh how the ghost of you clings! These foolish things Remind me of you.

More than a billion adults worldwide are now overweight - and at least 300 million of them are clinically obese. Childhood obesity is already epidemic in some areas and on the rise in others. Worldwide, an estimated 17.6 million children under five are said to be overweight.

Morgan Spurlock

You can't let something that'll probably never happen ruin your life. You're only helping to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy

I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.

It's as though some poor devil were to set out for a large dinner party with the knowledge that the following morning he would be hearing exactly what each of the other guests thought of him.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it

Tell Papa I admire him but from now on I plan to admire him from as far away as I can get.

As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.

I owe my greatest success to women. Contrary to the assertion that women do all in their power to hinder one another's progress, I have found that it has always been one of my own sex who has given me a helping hand when I needed it.

All my life I've wanted to see London. [...] I wanted to see London the way old people want to see home before they die.

Everybody is damaged goods. Everybody got bumps and dents, ja? But sometimes two people fit together, and the bumps go into the dents, and you have a whole thing like a potato.

Paul Quarrington

And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really.

We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.

Well, one thing you can say for masturbation... you certainly don't have to look your best.

There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, almost neurological phenomenon, and the words seem to generate more words - but only when you're writing. You can't do it in your head.

We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.

Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

They call war an art, but it isn't. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends - and that's not art: that's business.

Kenneth Roberts (author)

Lie to me. Tell me all these years you've waited. Tell me.

Before Me you are a slug in the sun. You are privy to a great Becoming and you recognize nothing. You are an ant in the after-birth.It is in your nature to do one thing correctly: before Me you rightly tremble. Fear is not what you owe Me, Lounds, you and the other pismires. You owe Me awe.

You're good, kid, but as long as I'm around, you're only second best.

Lancey Howard speaking

Ring Lardner Jr.