Quote

I don't like killing a girl, the Spaniard said. God does it all the time if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.

William Goldman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Goldman
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: August 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 16
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Highland Park
Illinois
S. Morgenstern
Harry Longbaugh
Killing
Worry
Girl
Doesn
Doe
Time
Spaniard
Like
Spaniards
Bother

More quotes by William Goldman

Image
It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.
William Goldman
Image
I love you,” Buttercup said. “I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more.
William Goldman
Image
Fool! cried the hunchback. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
William Goldman
Image
I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.
William Goldman
Image
Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
William Goldman
Image
Anybody that says different is selling something.
William Goldman
Image
One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
William Goldman
Image
Inconceivable! You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
William Goldman
Image
I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.
William Goldman
Image
For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
William Goldman
Image
Her mother was my wife, the Count roared, loudest of all. You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world. And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone. Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. Daddy likes you, she said.
William Goldman
Image
When I was your age, television was called books.
William Goldman
Image
Enough about my beauty, Buttercup said. Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.
William Goldman
Image
One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.
William Goldman
Image
Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
William Goldman
Image
I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.
William Goldman
Image
Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
William Goldman
Image
Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us together today.
William Goldman
Image
Get used to disappointment.
William Goldman
Image
Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
William Goldman