Geoffrey S. Fletcher Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
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It pretty much defeats the purpose of bedtime reading if you fall asleep before the kids do. And you tend to wake up with a matchbox stuck on the end of your nose and/or a potty on your head.
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I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
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If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!
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When people ask me what I think is my best work, it's the bus. There're lots of books, but there's only one bus.
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Sometimes I think your face and your bearing and your energy have so much more to do with the jobs you get than the actual work and the time and the effort that you put in, or the talent even.
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The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your stuff.
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It is important to understand that if you do fall, it's important for you to get right back up again.
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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.
