#rite

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#being #certain #colleagues #community #did

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words. ↗

— Steven Bochco

#communication #film #good #requires #screenwriter

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#content #denying #endowed #him #nature

So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#around #ball #ball game #becomes #composer

Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#being #christian #dream #grey #her

I had no idea that 'Less Than Zero' was going to be read by anyone outside of Los Angeles, and it's - believe me, as the writer of the book I'm somewhat amused and intrigued by the idea that 25 years later it's still out and people are still reading it. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#angeles #anyone #believe #book #going

I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#audience #generally #go #i #i think

I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#because #complex #deal #get #i

I write, but I also act. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#also #i #i write #write

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write. ↗

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

#been #cannot #ever #himself #limit