340 Quotes by William Goldman

One of the things that happens to careers out here is that people destroy themselves because they begin to think they’re wonderful. They begin to think they know what they’re doing, and the minute that happens, it’s over.

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

As long as you think you can fight your way out of trouble, you will never be able to fight your way out of trouble.

It appears to me as if we’re doomed, then,” Buttercup said. Westley looked at her. “Doomed, madam?” “To be together. Until one of us dies.” “I’ve done that already, and I haven’t the slightest intention of ever doing it again,” Westley said. Buttercup looked at him. “Don’t we sort of have to sometime?” “Not if we promise to outlive each other, and I make that promise now.” Buttercup looked at him. “Oh my Westley, so do I.

The writing is never what takes the most time. It’s trying to figure what you’re going to put down that fills the days. With anger at your own ineptitude, with frustration that nothing is happening inside your head, with panic that maybe nothing will ever happen inside your head, with blessed little moments that somehow knit together so that you can begin to visualize a scene.

The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary’s tragic flaw. Chocolate.

There’s death coming up, and you better understand this: some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it. This isn’t Curious George Uses the Potty.

The main thing was to know the world, every twenty-five years or so, back for a couple hundred years, and if you had that info handy, always there under your belt, then you could figure out the gaps.

Life isn’t fair, it’s just fairer than death, that’s all.