Quotes by Screenwriters - Page 23

his conscience washed clean by happiness.

Françoise Sagan

He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors.He felt as if he had left the great seance and all the murmuring ghosts.He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.

Ray Bradbury

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

Steven Pressfield

I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable.

Woody Allen

Small wonder how pitiably we love our home, cling in her skirts at night, rejoice in her wide star-seducing smile, when every star strikes us sick with the fright: do we really exist at all?

James Agee

The likelihood of meeting anyone who wouldn't make him feel even lonelier seemed increasingly remote. Life was a dwindling process now, not a building proposition. He couldn't imagine being with someone new, opening up, feeling appreciated and understood, without having to explain his dubious non sequiturs and increasingly arcane or redundant frame of reference.

Peter Nichols

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

Neil Gaiman

The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

George Miller

Then they start going on about cancer and how organic living is the way forward, totally ignoring how expensive it is to be organic and that there are a lot of people out there grateful if they can afford regular living.

Lisa O'Donnell

Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale?

Matthew Quick

I think they ought to know. You do them a disservice by not confiding something this important to them.”“I didn’t want —”“— to worry or frighten them?” said Dumbledore, surveying Harry over the top of his half-moon spectacles. “Or perhaps, to confess that you yourself are worried and frightened? You need your friends, Harry. As you so rightly said, Sirius would not have wanted you to shut yourself away.

J.K. Rowling

I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.

Stephen Chbosky

Me, feeling. What a concept.

Jeff Lindsay

I will scream as the sanity leaves my mind forever. I will scream...but there is no one there to hear me.

Stephen King

From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?

Ray Bradbury

I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered.

Stephen King

We're this big melting pot, but someone turned up the heat too high, and the stew started to burn. Gangs, crime, fights, and fear are now a regular part of our local stew.

Neal Shusterman

To the Dark Lord,I know I will be dead long before you read this but I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret. I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match, you will be mortal once more.R.A.B

J.K. Rowling

Every blade of grass was carved from emerald, every drip of water turned to diamond.

George R.R. Martin

An hour later we were walking past rows of busy beach huts and weaving between sunbathers and Frisbee games. I was surprised that people weren't taking more notice of us. Everyone looked so strange to me that I couldn't believe I didn't look equally strange to them.

Alex Garland

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

Cormac McCarthy

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

Richard Llewellyn

I need a weapon,” Valkyrie muttered.“You’re an Elemental with a Necromancer ring, trained ina variety of martial arts by some of the best ﬁghters in the world,” Skulduggery pointed out. “I’m fairly certain that makes you a weapon.”“I mean a weapon you hold. You have a gun, Tanith has a sword... I want a stick.”“I’ll buy you a stick for Christmas.

Derek Landy

A life spent waiting for your paycheck, measured out in work hours...A lifetime spent buying everything retail while selling oneself wholesale - L'amour Existe (1960)

Maurice Pialat

I’m sorry to pull you out of your classes, but your adviser understands,” Kitteredge said. “He’s a friend of the family.”So that’s it, Neal thought. You bought me; you own me.

Don Winslow

So Dobby stopped us from getting on the train and broke your arm. . . ." He shook his head. "You know what, Harry? If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.

J.K. Rowling

Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.

J.K. Rowling

Time, Eddie had decided during this period, was in large part created by external events. When a lot of interesting shit was happening, time seemed to go by fast. If you got stuck with nothing but the usual boring shit, it slowed down. And when everything stopped happening, time apparently quit altogether. Just packed up and went to Coney Island. Weird but true.

Stephen King

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

Stephen King

The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!

Richard Greenberg

I have noticed more than once in life that a taste for the ineffably twee can go hand-in-hand with a distinctly uncharitable outlook on the world, I once shared an office with a woman who had covered the wall space behind her desk with pictures of fluffy kitties; she was the most bigoted, spiteful champion of the death penalty with whom it has ever been my misfortune to share a kettle.A love of all things saccharine often seems present where there is a lack of real warmth or charity.

J.K. Rowling

Uncertainty is the normal state.

Tom Stoppard

She’s a gray woman with gray sayings.” “A crape-hanger.

Benedict Freedman

I recognized the handwriting, and my heart gave a skip; when I opened it I got a turn, for it began, 'To my beloved Hector,' and I thought, by God she's cheating on me, and has sent me the wrong letter by mistake. But in the second line was a reference to Achilles, and another to Ajax, so I understood she was just addressing me in terms which she accounted fitting for a martial paladin; she knew no better. It was a common custom at that time, in the more romantic females, to see their soldier husbands and sweethearts as Greek heroes, instead of the whore-mongering, drunken clowns most of them were. However, the Greek heroes were probably no better, so it was not far off the mark.

George MacDonald Fraser

Only Muggles talk of the ‘mind reading.’ The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by any invader. The mind is complex and many-layered thing, Potter… or at least, most minds are…

J.K. Rowling

please believe that things are good with me, and even when they're not, they will be soon enough. And i will always believe the same about you.

Stephen Chbosky

Wars have a way reinventing people. And making too many things disappear.-Sonia

Neal Shusterman

He looked rather pleasantly, like a blonde satan.

Dashiell Hammett

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does straight to our emotions deep into the twilight room of the soul.

Ingmar Bergman

Things might not be great, but things would be okay.

Gillian Flynn

He is tolerated by the gods, perhaps because his stratagems and plans save them as often as they get them into trouble.Loki makes the world more interesting but less safe. He is the father of monsters, the author of woes, the sly god.

Neil Gaiman

Adversity does more than build character. It changes the way we see the world.

Michael R. French

She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.

Neil Gaiman

The idea of parts of the body public fighting each other was like the idea of a man's punching himself in the face. It was a physical blasphemy that suited this era as an index of how far it had all gone.

Paul Cornell

I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.

Nicholas Sparks

I grew up with a front-row seat to what a happy, healthy marriage looks like. Never perfect, constantly evolving, always united.

Shonda Rhimes

pretty girls behave better when you ignore them.

Chetan Bhagat

If we die for them, Harry, I'm going to KILL YOU!

J.K. Rowling

There will be days you wish you’d never done it. And thosewill be the good times, when it’s only days of regret and notmonths.

Gillian Flynn

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.

Daniel Handler

We could all have been killed -or worse, expelled.

J.K. Rowling

Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, I'm always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.

Neil Gaiman

Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.

J.K. Rowling

Buffalo Hump knew his son was brave, but that was not enough. If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

Larry McMurtry

Always keep your foes confused. If they are never certain who you are or what you want, they cannot know what you are like to do next.

George R.R. Martin

Dreams turn to dust in light of day.

George R.R. Martin

I was wary of my sister's cooking, which invariably consisted of a tubular pasta and economy cheese, charred black on the surface, with either tinned tuna or lardy mince lurking beneath the molten crust ... So that evening, in a tiny flat in Tooting, I was pushed into the tiny kitchen where sixteen people sat crammed around a tiny trestle table designed for pasting wallpaper, one of my sister's notorious pasta bakes smouldering in its centre like a meteorite, smelling of toasted cat food.

David Nicholls

What my business partner says is, if the Lord gives you a talent or a skill, you have the obligation to use it as best as you can. Don’t you agree?

Neil Gaiman

Death is a part of life. It is inevitable. It is not to be feared

Kirsten Beyer

Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of how I appeared to others, but of how I appeared to myself, especially in violating self-imposed prohibitions.

Hanif Kureishi

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