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I don’t think screenplay writing is the same as writing — I mean, I think it’s blueprinting.Robert Altman
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.Enid Bagnold
I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again.Richard Ben Cramer
Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.Allegra Goodman
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.Stanley Kubrick
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.Elmore Leonard
You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.Jodi Picoult
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.Roman Polanski
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I don’t think screenplay writing is the same as writing — I mean, I think it’s blueprinting.Robert Altman
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it’s the answer to everything. … It’s the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it’s a cactus.Enid Bagnold
I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again.Richard Ben Cramer
Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.Allegra Goodman
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature.Ernest Hemingway
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.Aldous Huxley
Brave New World
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.Stanley Kubrick
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.Elmore Leonard
You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.Jodi Picoult
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.Roman Polanski
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