Because every
story begins
with words

video adapting a book to a screenplay

Video: Adapting a book into a screenplay.

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

Lawrence Wray

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

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

William Goldman

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

Sidney Sheldon

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

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

You may be able to take a break from writing, but you won’t be able to take a break from being a writer.

Stephen Leigh

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

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

Michael Burke

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

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

Christopher Hampton

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

Critics are people who sit on the mountaintop and look down on the battlefield. When the fighting is finished, they take it upon themselves to come down from the mountain and shoot the survivors.

Robert Altman

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

E. B. White

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

Stephen King

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

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

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

Matthew Arnold