Jack Woodford - Quotes By Woodford

Quotes By Woodford

• “Boy meets girl; girl gets boy into pickle; boy gets pickle into girl.”
• “Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.”
• “Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.”
• “If you wish to write great literature you are very stupid to read my books, because I do not, cannot, and would not write great literature.”
• “One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.”
• “Editors are the immemorial adversaries of writers, because most editors are editors because they wanted to be writers and failed, and they instinctively hate those who wanted to be writers and succeeded.”
• “I got my favors the hard way. I found out what the dame most wanted, and either gave it to her or pretended I was going to give it to her, and that in all cases got action—always does, always will, for any man.”
• “Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can't read.”
• “Constantly writer after writer would come to me in Hollywood to invite me into Communist activities and I would laugh at them and point out the utter inconsistency of a man making fifteen hundred dollars a week or more, doing next to nothing, going for a philosophy which would destroy just that and put them back where they were when the golden cornucopia splayed them.”