Making Short Films Quotes

“You become a better writer by being fortunate enough to be a good writer who writes every day, who edits ferociously, who worries over every word as if you are laying a path with diamonds. There are no tricks. No short cuts. No magic course or tutor or how to guide. Each book is climbing Everest without oxygen and, if you are talented enough or lucky enough to get published, it is unlikely that your book will sell enough copies to pay you royalties equivalent to a teacher's annual salary. And if you write another book, you start again, you reinvent the wheel, you take another bag of diamonds and lay them one at a time in a new direction. Those who cannot write have as much chance of learning to write as those who can't fly are drawn to clifftops to try and fly.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen

“Books are not a commodity. They are a ticket for another journey.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Making Short Films, 2nd Edition. Berg Publishers. 2008.

“A writer is someone who writes every day and is unhappy if he doesn't.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen

“To use a sculptural metaphor, the great novel, essay, biography is imprisoned inside a block of marble and the writer must chip away with a tiny chisel until the exquisite appears”
― Clifford Thurlow, Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen

“A teacher can’t teach you how to write. What a teacher can do is show a writer how not to write.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen

“Writing is the enjoyable part of writing. It's all the rest that drives you mad.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen

“Writing is a journey with no maps, no ending, no guides (except charlatans) and often no point. Still we do it.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen

“Writing is a virus once caught never to be cured.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen

“No one knows why we do it and when we've done it rarely does anyone want it. Yet still we do it. That's what being a writer is.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen

“Don't let baby slip too quickly from your fingers. Hang on tight until she's ready to go. And then hang on a little longer.”
― Clifford Thurlow, Making Short Films: The Complete Guide from Script to Screen