36 Quotes by Geoffrey S. Fletcher

I’m interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It’s in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

It’s so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it’s really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.

It’s always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it’s humbling.

I don’t have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.

I love so many different genres. I love crime films – and unusual coming-of-age pieces.

I don’t think there’s enough breadth to the stories told about African-Americans.

It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn’t.

I think if you get your fifth script made, that’s the fast track. But there’s no guarantee any of them will get made.