“Finding Forrester” quotes

“No thinking - that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!”
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“- William Forrester: You don't know a goddamn thing about reason; There are no reasons! Reasons why some of us live and why some of us don't! Fortunately for you, you have decades to figure that out!
- Jamal Wallace: Yeah, and what's the reason in having a file cabinet full of writing and keeping the shit locked so nobody can read it? What is...” (continue)(continue reading)

Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace

“Someone I once knew wrote that we walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail or worse yet, afraid we may succeed. You need to know that while I knew so very early that you would realize your dreams, I never imagined I would once again realize my own.”
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“Why is it that the words that we write for ourselves are always so much better than the words we write for others?”
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“The rest of those who have gone before us cannot steady the unrest of those to follow.”
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace

“Be sure to write.”
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace

“Writers write things to give readers something to read.”
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“- Jamal Wallace: Women will sleep with you if you write a book?
- William Forrester: Women will sleep with you if you write a bad book.”
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“The key to a woman's heart is an unexpected gift at an unexpected time.”
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“- William Forrester: In some cultures it's good luck to be wearing something inside-out.
- Jamal: And you believe that?
- Jamal Wallace: No, but it's like praying: what do you risk?”
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace

“An expression is worth a thousand words. Perhaps in your case, just two.”

Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“- Jamal: We've been talking about your book at school.
- Forrester: People have been talking about it for years. They just haven't been saying anything.
- Jamal: I think I got it down, though. I figure you were writing about how life never works out.
- Forrester: Really? You had to read a book to figure that out?”
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

- Jamal Wallace: You said that my skills reached "farther" than basketball. "Farther" relates to distance, "further" is a definition of degree. You should have said "further".
- Prof. Robert Crawford: Are you challenging me, Mr. Wallace?
- Jamal Wallace: Not any more than you challenged Coleridge.
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace
F. Murray Abraham - Prof. Robert Crawford

“Seasons change young man, and while I may have waited until the winter of my life, to see the things I've seen this past year, there is no doubt I would have waited too long, had it not been for you.”
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“- Jamal Wallace: Did you ever enter a writin' contest?
- William Forrester: Yeah, once.
- Jamal Wallace: Did you win?
- William Forrester: Well of course I won!
- Jamal Wallace: You win like money or somethin'?
- William Forrester: No.
- Jamal Wallace: Well, whadchu win?
- William Forrester: The Pulitzer.”
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

- William Forrester: Paragraph three starts...with a conjunction, "and." You should never start a sentence with a conjunction.
- Jamal Wallace: Sure you can.
- William Forrester: No, it's a firm rule.
- Jamal Wallace: No, it was a firm rule. Sometimes using a conjunction at the start of a sentence makes it stand out. And that may be what the... (continue)(continue reading)
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace

“Whatever we write in this apartment stays in this apartment.”
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester

“- Jamal Wallace: I ain't seen nothing change.
- William Forrester: You ain't seen nothing? What the hell kind of sentence is that?”
Rob Brown - Jamal Wallace
Sir Sean Connery - William Forrester