William Goldman Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.

I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.

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

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

If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.

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

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

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

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

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

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.

When I was your age, television was called books.

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

I write out of revenge.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches! If your love were-" "I don't understand that first one yet," Buttercup interrupted. She was starting to get very excited now. "Let me get this straight. Are you saying my love is a grain of sand and yours is this other thing? Images confuse me so - is this universal business of yours bigger than my sand? Help me, Westley. I have the feeling we're on the verge of something just terribly important.

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

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.

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.

Love is many things none of them logical.