Because every
story begins
with words

do you need a professional sci-fi screenwriter

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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

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

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

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

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

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.

William C. Gault

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

Lisa See

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

Gloria Steinem

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell

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

E. B. White

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Mickey Spillane

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

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

Steven Bochco

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

John Irving

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

Sidney Sheldon

I get up in the morning, torture a typewriter until it screams, then stop.

Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Jeanette Walls

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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