If you have several ways you can take a situation, and you pick the one that cheats the characters, the audience, and common sense, you need to pick again.
– Jamahl Epsicokhan
Tag: Quotable
Quotable 453
A poet can survive anything but a misprint.
– Oscar Wilde
Quotable 452
The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings.
– Arundhati Roy
Quotable 451
In order to create the universal you must pay very great attention to the specific.
– Lorraine Hansberry
Quotable 450
Dialogue has to create a life. It has to be self-sustaining. Conversation is definitely not dialogue.
– Sam Shepard
Quotable 449
George! You can type this shit, but you sure can’t say it! Move your mouth when you’re typing!
– Harrison Ford to George Lucas on the set of the original Star Wars film
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Quotable 448
It’s amazing how much you can get away with that could be considered polemic as long as it’s funny. As soon as it ceases to be funny, your readers start feeling preached to and rebel.
– Lionel Shriver
Quotable 447
There’s a saying in all writers’ rooms – it’s either fear or faith. You’re either trying to satisfy your guess about other people’s expectations, or you’re working through the genuine and authentic possibilities of the material.
– David Milch
Quotable 446
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
– Pablo Picasso
Quotable 445
Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
– Anne Lamott