Probably 95 percent of the things that are written never get on the screen.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.
In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.
I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.
Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.
I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know.
I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.
Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.