Quotes by Women Screenwriters

I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it.

Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar.

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

Lillian Hellman

Nobody ever notices the host at a party, until the drink runs out.

Anthony Gilbert (author)

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

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all are happy to be just where they are with each other and loving one another. This doesn't happen very often.

You can have one of mine," he says. "i'll yank one out right now." no, that won't count. It has to be the lash that naturally falls out. " He gets on his knees and starts looking for my lash.

You don't know what you want. Nobody ever knows until they are too old to get it.

Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books properly, to work with the bookstore chains to getterms, co-op advertising, and the like. The difficulty is that publishers who can market are most often not the publishers with worthy lists.

Olivia Goldsmith

Nobody comes to Minnesota to take their clothes off, at least as far as I know.

She had large, rather beautiful hazel eyes which she blinked rapidly from time to time. This habit gave her a timorous yet slightly defiant demeanour: the sort of girl who made a career out of being insecure.

Caroline Graham

Boston is one of the few American cities that regrets the past... Boston's like England. Up to its ears in yellowing photographs.

Penelope Gilliatt

Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus, and it's hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy, and more than anything else in the world, you wanna get off. And the only reason in the world you don't get off is it's still fifty blocks from where you're going. Well, I can get off right now if I want to. Because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, it's still the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. Whenever I've had enough, it's my stop. I've had enough.

Anything could be true or false, depending on whether one believed it.

Not instant, darling. Grind some beans. That's not proper coffee... that's just beans that have been cremated. I want them entire with life force.

Jennifer Saunders

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.

Melina Marchetta

Look, Daddy. Teacher says, "Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings."

Frances Goodrich

You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.

Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate—the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth.

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.

A question I've thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.

Gabrielle Zevin

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.