Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
Compliments you pay to yourself aren't worth having.
A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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.
What's this business of being a writer. It's just putting one word after another.
If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.