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

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

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

We are men of action, lies do not become us.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

You can never trust what you read.

Nobody knows anything.

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

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

I haven't done much rereading or rewatching stuff I've written over the years, but I did look at 'Misery' before I started the play. I liked it. Not much I would change.

Stephen King is one of my all-time heroes, so, of course, the pressure never lets up. Every second, you hope he'll like it. I remember getting a call from him after he read my script for 'Hearts in Atlantis.' He liked it. Talk about relief.

I had two little daughters - I think they were 7 and 4 at the time - and I said, 'I'll write you a story. What do you want it to be about?' One of them said 'a princess' and the other one said 'a bride.' I said, 'That'll be the title.'

We had terrible trouble finding a Buttercup because she had to be so beautiful. We had all kinds of pretty girls come in, but they weren't this staggering thing.

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.

If you think of human experience as a pie, then the wedge Hollywood is reflecting now is getting smaller and smaller.

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