William Goldman Quotes, Thoughts and images

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.

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

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

I write out of revenge.

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

When I was your age, television was called books.

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

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

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

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

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

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.

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

No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!

You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.

Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.

He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.

I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.

Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

The enemy is always in the mind.