Author: Rolando Andrés Ramos

Writer | Educator | Marketing Strategist

I Don’t Believe In Updating

I don’t believe in updating. If a play works, it draws something from being true to its time.

Goodreads.com. (2019). Frank D. Gilroy Quotes (Author of Lake). [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/527238.Frank_D_Gilroy [Accessed 14 Oct. 2019].
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You Reach A Time When Fact And Fiction Blend Seamlessly

You reach a time… when fact and fiction blend seamlessly. If you do it too soon, it’s journalism. If you do it too late, you forget, and it’s fantasy. There’s an optimum time.

Goodreads.com. (2019). Frank D. Gilroy Quotes (Author of Lake). [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/527238.Frank_D_Gilroy [Accessed 14 Oct. 2019].

Writers Spend Years Arranging 26 Letters

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It’s enough to make you lose your mind day by day.

Goodreads.com. (2019). Richard Price Quotes (Author of Lush Life). [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/16481.Richard_Price [Accessed 12 Oct. 2019].

You Can’t Take A Character Anywhere Readers Don’t Expect The Character To Go

You can’t take a character anywhere they don’t expect the character to go. But within those confines is where creativity lies.

Goodreads.com. (2019). Richard Price Quotes (Author of Lush Life). [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/16481.Richard_Price [Accessed 12 Oct. 2019].

If You Can Tell The Story Beginning To End In Five Minutes You Are Ready To Write

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I’m ready to start writing. Then it’s a constant spreading out of that five minutes.

Goodreads.com. (2019). Richard Price Quotes (Author of Lush Life). [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/16481.Richard_Price [Accessed 12 Oct. 2019].

I Can Never Read A Book Or See A Movie I Wrote

I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can’t accurately judge it. I’m too close to it. If I read it ten times I’ll have ten different reactions.

Goodreads.com. (2019). Richard Price Quotes (Author of Lush Life). [online] Available at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/16481.Richard_Price [Accessed 12 Oct. 2019].