“ It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matt… William Goldman
“ Fortunately for all concerned save the sharks, it was around this time that the moon came out.There she is, shouted the Sicilian, and like lightning the Spaniard turned the boat and as the boat drew c… William Goldman
“ All right. Your name before mine. You are the greatest sword maker, you deserve to come first.Have a good trip back.WHY WON'T YOU?Because, my friend Yeste, you are very famous and very rich, and so yo… William Goldman
“ In point of fact, she had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one un… William Goldman
“ Screenplays are structure, and that’s all they are. The quality of writing—which is crucial in almost every other form of literature—is not what makes a screenplay work. Structure isn’t anything else… William Goldman
“ How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic? William Goldman
“ Who can know when his world is going to change? . . . Who would suspect that in the morning a different child would wake? . . . Perhaps I should have at least known something, but maybe not; who can s… William Goldman
