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

March 30, 2017May 9, 2025 779

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!

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

Tom Clancy

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

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

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.

Orson Scott Card

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.

Robert Benchley

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

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 begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

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

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

T.S. Eliot

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

Stephen King

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

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

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

Lawrence Wray

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.

Mark Twain

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

Sidney Sheldon

Anecdotes don’t make good stories. Generally, I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

Alice Munro

Do not place a photograph of your favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

Roddy Doyle

The character that lasts is an ordinary guy with some extraordinary qualities.