Writers Archives - Bizarre Los Angeles

Ernest Heminway

“Let me tell you about writing for films. You finish your book. Now, you know where the California state line is? Well, […]

“I am not the sort of person who knows people. I am the sort of person whom people know.” – Lorna Moon, novelist […]

“To live sanely in Los Angeles (or, I suppose, in any other large American city) you have to cultivate the art of […]

“I want it understood that I have no natural aptitude as a writer. In fact, I don’t consider myself a very good […]

“I prefer working at home because the studio is such a beehive of activity. And how can they expect a poor scenario […]

“You might say that I know life only as it’s found in books, but if you did I should interpose that I […]

“In Paris, I wrote poetry, French poetry, very bad indeed. But friends assured me my center of song rested below my brain, […]

“We can never break entirely away from the spoken drama, for while the fundamental difference between the two classes of dramatic construction […]

“Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.” — Dorothy Parker “The only ‘-ism’ Hollywood believes in is […]

“A preoccupation with words for their own sake is fatal to good film making. It’s not what films are for. It’s not […]