Jack Woodford quotes

“Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.”
-- Jack Woodford

Source : Jack Woodford (2012). “Trial and Error”, p.177, askmar publishing

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“Boy meets girl; girl gets boy into pickle; boy gets pickle into girl.”
-- Jack Woodford

Source : Jack Woodford (2012). “The Autobiography of Jack Woodford”, p.299, askmar publishing

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“Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.”
-- Jack Woodford

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“Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read.”
-- Jack Woodford

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“One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.”
-- Jack Woodford

Source : Jack Woodford (2012). “Trial and Error”, p.126, askmar publishing

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“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”

“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins

“He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2009). “Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir”, p.14, Da Capo Press

“Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain.”

“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”

“The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.”

“Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?”

Source : Aidan Chambers (1999). “Postcards from No Man's Land: A Novel”, Random House (UK)

“I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.”

“...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.”

“Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”