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Every writer with half a brain knows to surround himself or herself with editors who are smarter, far more articulate and infinitely better looking.
You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.
Substitute “damn” every time you’re inclined to write “very”; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.
If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
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.
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
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.
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.
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

























