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

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

March 30, 2017July 21, 2023 402

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

Stephen Wright

If the sex scene doesn’t make you want to do it — whatever it is they’re doing — it hasn’t been written right.

Sloan Wilson

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

Edward Albee

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

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.

Robert McKee

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

Raymond Chandler

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

Lisa See

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad

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

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the Internet.

Zadie Smith

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

Christopher Hampton

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it.

Stan Lee

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

Gloria Steinem

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

Easy reading is damn hard writing.