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An honest email conversation about dealing with a client who wrote a problematic screenplay.

September 2, 2021June 4, 2026

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It’s time to put on my big boy pants.

August 28, 2021June 4, 2026

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We’ve begun producing our own videos!

July 31, 2021June 4, 2026

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Let’s talk about reputation and integrity.

July 27, 2021June 4, 2026

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A story about the filthiest boxing gym in New York.

April 26, 2021June 4, 2026

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Our new logo. What do you think?

April 2, 2021June 5, 2026

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The real-life word cops: Feds hoping to clarify language.

February 19, 2021June 5, 2026

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Novelists are moving into TV writers’ rooms.

February 11, 2021June 5, 2026

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There’s one wild screenplay awaiting a talented writer.

December 10, 2020June 5, 2026

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An interview with, and a new dark thriller novel by, Eric Shapiro.

October 8, 2020June 5, 2026

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Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.

Anton Chekhov

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.

Sidney Sheldon

Don’t annoy an author, you’ll end up in their book and you won’t look good.

Lawrence Wray

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

Tom Clancy

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Will Rogers

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.