The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
Quote of the Day: Raymond Chandler
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1st response: “This sounds very much like something Hemingway might have said.”
Rewrite: “Hemingway.”
Well put 🙂
it’s profound and cool but where and when did he say it?
The quote comes from a piece he published in The Atlantic Monthly in November, 1945 — http://bit.ly/oZFBe3