No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.
Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.
A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.