Because every
story begins
with words

Eight secrets to writing a low-budget movie

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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

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

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

Stephen Wright

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

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

Tom Clancy

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

Stephen King

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

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Jeanette Walls

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

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

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

William Goldman

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Arthur Balfour

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee

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

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Steven Bochco