Because every
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video adapting a book to a screenplay

Exclusive ghostwriting videos! Adapting a book into a screenplay.

Just don’t be boring!

Robert Liebmann

You can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page.

Jodi Picoult

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

Steven Bochco

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

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

Tom Clancy

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

Sidney Sheldon

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

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

Clarence Budington Kelland

It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

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

Lisa See

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

No writer has ever yet been known to hang himself as long as he had another chapter left.

Thomas Wolfe

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

Raymond Chandler

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

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

C. J. Cherryh

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

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

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

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

E. B. White

Ever heard of a carpenter not going to work because he has “carpenter’s block”? If a writer can’t write, it’s because he doesn’t really want to, he isn’t ready to get it on paper or he’s just plain lazy.

Chet Cunningham