Ginnifer Goodwin Quotes

You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools.

I don't dream about the perfect script, though I check my mailbox every morning.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.

I don't have a stack of scripts.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

You know, a song is like a kid. You bring it up. And sometimes something you thought was going to be fantastic, by the time it's finished, is a bit of a disappointment.

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

I reappointed him and he disappointed me.

Many people would rather have fine words and false hopes than the truth which is unacceptable.

The expectation that 'Trump as president' will be starkly different from 'Trump as candidate' is a false hope at best.

Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year.

I can't remember what my first script was.

Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.

I started out writing stories because that's all I wanted to read, but now I don't know if I'll ever write one again.

When you're younger, love is this magic thing where the heavens open up. You live 40 years past that, you realize sometimes the heavens close down.

My first film was a big dud at the box office, and my second film did decently. I used to wonder how it would feel to have a hit film. I thought I'd be larger than life, but I'm not feeling anything I imagined. It's a completely different experience.

Hype covers every surface of mass culture, and sports fans are intimately familiar with it - the heavy-breathing buildup that leads, inevitably, to a first-round knockout or a 30-point blowout or a fourth-inning rainout.

My generation feels it has been lied to a great deal.