"I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it."

-- Charlie Kaufman

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music.”
“Living sites are only as good as today's update. If the words are dull, nobody will read them, and nobody will come back. If the words are wrong, people will be misled, disappointed, infuriated. If the words aren't there, people will shake their heads and lament your untimely demise.”
“I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.”

Source : John Henry Mackay (2001). “John Henry Mackay: Autobiographical Writings”, p.11, Xlibris Corporation
“Life's too short to pretend and play games like that. I want to spend my time hanging out with people who make me feel good about myself. People who make me happy.”

Source : Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.302, Harlequin
“If you are centered, you can move freely.”
“With theory, we can separate fundamental characteristics from fascinating idiosyncrasies and incidental features. Theory supplies landmarks and guideposts, and we begin to know what to observe and where to act.”

Source : John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman
“I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.”
“Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.”

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