One of our happy clients sent us this delicious “tip.”

30 Mar, 2017

Every now and then we get a tip for services well rendered. Today, this arrived in the hands of our chief writer from one of our overseas screenplay rewrite clients:

He promptly notified me and I asked him to send me half. We are, after all, partners. :) Sweet!

One of our happy clients sent us this delicious “tip.”

March 30, 2017May 9, 2025

Every now and then we get a tip for services well rendered. Today, this arrived in the hands of our chief writer from one of our Read More...

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

I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has just put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or banana split.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

When writing a novel, that’s pretty much entirely what life turns into: “House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1,500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.”

Neil Gaiman

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

Gloria Steinem

Editor: A person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Elbert Hubbard

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I’m writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I’m going to play for the opening sequence.

Quentin Tarantino

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote Quote

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

A true author, no matter the medium, is an artist with godlike knowledge of his subject, and the proof of his authorship is that his pages smack of authority.

Robert McKee

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

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

William Goldman

Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.

Michael Crichton

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

Romulus Linney

Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice.

Stephen King

If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Michael Burke

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