In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that's implied before it and the line that's implied after it. Maybe five lines have to do the work of fifty lines.
From Chuck Palahniuk
In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I get from young Christians who recognise this and enjoy it.
When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time.
My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits.
At the age of 31, I realized, 'Oh my God, I may die like everyone else.'
Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking.
Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.
Arguing that God doesn't exist would be like people in the 10th century arguing that germs and microbes didn't exist because they couldn't see them.
When I was little, my grandma used to get romance novels, and she would get hundreds of these, and she'd read a dozen a month.
I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.
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