And what have I done?" What? WHAT?...You've stolen them." With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who "them" was. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS.

William Goldman

Categorized in : Boys Done Beef

Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.

William Goldman

dancing writing ideas

Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.

William Goldman

motion-pictures lucky fields

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

William Goldman

princess wall heart

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

William Goldman

know-how good-writers writing

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

William Goldman

soulmate love beach

One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.

William Goldman

easy writing world

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

normal crazy facts

"We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has."

William Goldman

optimism optimistic doubt

Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.

William Goldman

i-can can-do

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

William Goldman

protect writing

True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

William Goldman

true-love sweet-love healing

Love is many things none of them logical.

William Goldman

princess-bride logical love

He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.” “Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes.

William Goldman

pain revenge sports

I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.

William Goldman

love-you boys long

When I was your age, television was called books.

William Goldman

age book television

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

William Goldman

princes-bride princess-bride life-is

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

sad life death

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

William Goldman

No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.

William Goldman

lucky dream art

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

William Goldman

delay movie-love romantic