Community is one of the best shows on television. If you haven’t started watching it yet, get on it. Here are links to the Pilot, Episode 4: Social Psychology, Episode 7: Intro to Statistics, and Episode 9: Debate. The show was created by Dan Harmon.
I’ve been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can’t remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.
This script for Water for Elephants was written by Richard Lagravenese based on the novel by Sara Gruen.
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
Oh it is only a novel… In short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.
This draft of the Oscar winning script, Crash, was written by Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco.
Pedestrian writing, thin characters-I can handle the criticism. I write to pedestrians. And I am a pedestrian. I write the best I can. I know I’m never going to be revered as some classic writer. I don’t claim to be C. S. Lewis. The literary-type writers, I admire them. I wish I was smart enough to write a book that’s hard to read, you know?
Here is the script for The Graduate written by Buck Henry. It is considered one of the best scripts ever written.
There is absolutely no point in sitting down to write a book unless you feel that you must write that book, or else go mad, or die.
