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The future just isn't what it used to be
You never have to change a book for budget.
Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.
I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.
It's amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem.
I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing
I'm really not a fan of voiceovers; I think they become a crutch.
Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.
Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?
I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.
I’m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.
Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.
Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.
Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.
If only all our conflicts could be resolved with a few grunts and a smack in the ass.
I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.
There's a satisfaction I get from writing fiction that I will never get from screenwriting.
We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.
Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.
I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.
That's the thing about life; everything feels so permanent, but you can disappear in an instant.
Pity, I've learned, is like a fart. You can tolerate your own, but you simply can't stand anyone else's.
At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started.
I'm at my desk before nine, and I go all day. I'm not necessarily productive all day, but really, who is?
It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.
There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.
We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.
What it must feel like, I thought, to look at something, anything really, and know that it’s for the last time?
I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App on my iPad.
At some point, being angry is just another bad habit, like smoking, and you keep poisoning yourself without thinking about it.
We are injured and angry, scared and sad. Some families, like some couples, become toxic to each other after prolonged exposure.
But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.
She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over.
I want to explain everything to him, show him that it’s really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.
There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go and make it happen.
I'm generally somebody who hopes for the best. It's not what one ought to do in my line of work [screenwriting], but it is what I do.
I've never been shot, but this probably what it feels like, that second of nothingness right before the pain catches up to the bullet.
It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents.
Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.
Ultimately, you have to write what's coming at any given point in time. Fighting your instincts for practical reasons is a losing battle.
I have a handful of leather jackets, and I love them all. I think most men my age do, and it can be traced back to the Fonz and Danny Zuko.
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician.
As far as rapprochements go, it's awkward and vague, but the advantage of being as emotionally inarticulate as we are is that it will do the trick.
You lost your wife, Douglas. My heartbreaks for you, it really does. But I lose my husband every day, all over again. And I don’t even get to mourn.
Sometimes it’s heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they’ve become. Maybe that’s why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.
I blame Hollywood for skewing perspectives. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them, and if you meet cute, happily ever-after is a forgone conclusion.
I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.
Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and occasionally rumored to be dead.
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.