CHARLES R. JACKSON

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

I have become so used to having people say, 'We loved your movie' instead of 'We read your book' that now I merely say, 'Thanks.'

I am beginning to loathe & detest all that Hollywood represents.

[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.

I have become so used to having people say, 'We loved your movie' instead of 'We read your book' that now I merely say, 'Thanks.'

I am beginning to loathe & detest all that Hollywood represents.

The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist.

[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.