Flannery O'Connor: “The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.” #writing

Richard Price: "The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. You pick the smallest part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance." #writing

Proof I do my best to help screenwriters whenever I can. DMs open.

Daniel Quinn: "Dialogue is thinking about something with two minds instead of one.” #writing

Madeleine L’Engle: “Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.” medium.com/go-into-the-st… #writing

Jules Renard: “The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place. All I must do is find it, and copy it.” #writing

"If you’re reading through & stop, something is wrong. Cut it. If something bothers you, then it’s bad. Cut it." ~Paddy Chayefsky

Rick Riordan: “I tell aspiring writers you have to find what you MUST write. When you find it, you will know, because the subject matter won’t let you go.” #writing

Terry Rossio: “Writing is ten percent burnishing the good, and ninety percent scrubbing out the bad.” #writing

“An actor entering through the door, you’ve got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you’ve got a situation.” ~Billy Wilder

Paul Rudnick: “As a writer, I need an enormous amount of time alone. Writing is ninety percent procrastination." #writing

Anthony Grieco: "If it’s not the first thing you’re thinking about when you wake up in the morning, you’re probably writing the wrong idea.” #screenwriting

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William Kelley: “The secret to screenwriting is short sentences, small words, and BIG pictures.” medium.com/go-into-the-st… #screenwriting #writing

Sorry but I have very little sympathy for people who complain about the industry. Is it hard to break in? It's almost impossible – harder now than it used to be. Do people with connections have a better chance of success? Of course they do. Go make some. You're not a nepo

Barry Jenkins: “It’s important to stay in the world of the characters. Once you enter that space, you gotta just stay in it.” #screenwriting

Sidney Sheldon: “A blank piece of paper is God’s way of telling us how hard it to be God.” #writing

Will Simmons: "This is a profession of obsessions. As writers, we’re stalkers of the written word, always hunting for the perfect combination of ideas and phrases to express images flickering in our mind’s eye.” #writing

Decided to read Tony Gilroy’s MICHAEL CLAYTON script last week. Incredible propulsion. Beautiful economy of visual storytelling. A bulletproof road map for post. One of the great examples of the craft. (Also, just to say, that move hits different at 45 than it did at 25.)

Stanley Kubrick: “The best plot is no apparent plot. I like a slow start that gets under the audience’s skin and involves them so they can appreciate grace notes and soft tones and don’t have to be pounded over the head with plot points.” medium.com/go-into-the-st… #screenwriting